Tag: current affairs – India

Modi’s Trump bet collapses. Expect Democrats to raise the heat

US Congress’ Democratic sweep intensifies pressure on Modi’s governance, despite enduring strategic convergenceBharat Bhushan The Democratic Party’s electoral sweep of both chambers of the US Congress presents a two-front dilemma for the Narendra Modi government. It must simultaneously navigate an unpredictable and transaction-oriented US President Donald Trump, and an empowered US Congress controlled by Democrats… Read More Modi’s Trump bet collapses. Expect Democrats to raise the heat

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The anti-SIR and anti-CEC agitation is now set to become a pro-democracy movement

Yogendra Yadav No one expected Chief Election Commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar to resign after the massive INDIA bloc rally this Sunday. Yet, despite the churlish debate over how many attended the rally, the protest has achieved more than anyone expected. At the same time, this success places greater responsibility on everyone involved in this month-long… Read More The anti-SIR and anti-CEC agitation is now set to become a pro-democracy movement

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Dr. Subir Sinha: India’s Youth Anger Is Unraveling Modi’s Authoritarian Populism

In an in-depth interview with the ECPS, Dr. Subir Sinha, Director of the SOAS South Asia Institute, examines how India’s emerging Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) is challenging Narendra Modi’s authoritarian-populist hegemony. Situating youth mobilization within broader crises of unemployment, neoliberal restructuring, electoral legitimacy, and Hindu majoritarianism, Dr. Sinha argues that Modi’s strategies for containing generational… Read More Dr. Subir Sinha: India’s Youth Anger Is Unraveling Modi’s Authoritarian Populism

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PM, Shah Rush To Discredit INDIA Vote-theft Campaign

Modi posted: “MLC elections in 28 seats across four big states — Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar and Karnataka. Elections held using ballot papers. Guess how many seats Congress won?” A monocled emoji at the end of the post emphasised his sarcasm suggesting that this was the obvious conclusion after a close examination of the results.… Read More PM, Shah Rush To Discredit INDIA Vote-theft Campaign

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Special Intensive Revision (SIR, 2025-26) is a brazen assault on India’s universal adult franchise

NB: This is a shameless assault on the most fundamental guarantee of the Indian Constitution, and if the Supreme Court cannot see it as such, we are free to draw the most sinister conclusion. This is the centenary of the RSS; and this, is the clearest evidence of what they wish for as their utopia.… Read More Special Intensive Revision (SIR, 2025-26) is a brazen assault on India’s universal adult franchise

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Hridayesh Joshi: कुलदीप नैय्यर स्मृति सम्मान समारोह में वक्तव्य

हृदयेश जोशी, 24 अक्टूबर 2026 प्रिय आशीष नंदी जी, कुमार प्रशांत जी, चयन समिति के माननीय सदस्य और सम्मानित उपस्थित जन, लेखक और पत्रकार कुलदीप नैयर जी की स्मृति में दिये जाने वाले इस सम्मान के लिए मैं गांधी शांति प्रतिष्ठान और चयनकर्ताओं का तहेदिल से शुक्रिया अदा करता हूँ। इसे पाकर मैं जितना प्रसन्न… Read More Hridayesh Joshi: कुलदीप नैय्यर स्मृति सम्मान समारोह में वक्तव्य

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Independence of Judiciary and Justice Sanjay Kaul’s Charge that Ex CJI Chandrachud was Deferential to Government

NB: (The counter revolution) tried many forms and devices, but soon learned that it could come to power only with the help of the state machine and never against it… the Kapp Putsch of 1920 and the Hitler Pustch of 1923 had proved this.. In the centre of the counter revolution stood the judiciary. Unlike… Read More Independence of Judiciary and Justice Sanjay Kaul’s Charge that Ex CJI Chandrachud was Deferential to Government

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