Maria Tavernini 10 February 2023
India’s ruling Bhratiya Janata Party has blocked “The Modi Question”, the documentary on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s role in the 2002 Gujarat riots.
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- Maria Tavernini 4 October 2022Despite its size and demographic weight, India has never managed to become the geopolitical giant it hoped to be in recent decades. It’s fast-paced economic and demographic growth however will soon permit it to surpass it’s historical colonizer making it the subject of courtship in a newly repolarized world.
- Nandini Sundar 3 August 2022Citizens who are member of societal, ethnic or religious minorities are per se more vulnerable than the rest of a country’s population. That should be the case in India, too. Yet rather than being protected by the State, many of them are facing increasing hurdles, if not outright harassment through public measures. Prof. Nandini Sundar explains how.
- Maria Tavernini 22 March 2022The landslide victory of Narendra Modi’s ruling party paves the way for his re-election in 2024. Anti-Muslim policies are set to be reinvigorated.
- Ananya Vajpeyi 20 December 2021Christophe Jaffrelot’s latest oeuvre provides a comprehensive account of how, and why, India started descending into today’s political nightmare. A review.
- Maria Tavernini 24 November 2021Coal “phasing-down” was seen as bitter disappointment in the West, but as a remarkable result in India. Its élite is now pondering how to make best use of its “re-discovered” diplomatic potential.
- Maria Tavernini 3 August 2021India’s government is cracking down on dissent by means of an anti-terrorism law, the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act. Here’s how it works.
- Maria Tavernini 5 May 2021Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling BJP are increasingly on the defensive over the spiralling out of the pandemic in the country
- Mujibur Rehman 15 April 2021Regardless of the outcome of elections in West Bengal, the BJP’s emerging dominance has brought a paradigm shift across the country’s politics, writes Shaikh Mujibur Rehman.
- Maria Tavernini 16 March 2021India’s nationalist government has started to identify Rohingya refugees in Jammu & Kashmir, seeking their repatriation to Myanmar, where they escaped genocide and would likely face further persecutions under the military junta. The UN and human rights advocacies are pushing to hold New Delhi accountable to international refugee protection obligations.
