Congress party leader Rahul Gandhi, center in blue mask, and other lawmakers participate in a protest in New Delhi, India, Friday, Aug. 5, 2022. “Democracy is a memory (in India),” Gandhi later ...

Every new year begins with the audacity of contrived hope, for individuals and nations. Last year, I had written about Nine ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks Thursday during the inauguration of the Global Buddhist Summit in New Delhi. (Manish Swarup/AP) Asked about the recent dramatic expulsion from parliament of ...

New Delhi — People started casting votes Friday in India in what's set to be the largest general election ever held anywhere in the world, with nearly 1 billion eligible voters. The election will be ...

As India navigates the mid-2020s, the electorate’s relationship with graft is evolving from passive resignation to a complex ...

In the run-up to hosting the G-20 summit this year, India has begun marketing itself as the “mother of democracies.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi began to emphasize this idea last year, both ...

Do India’s 1.4 billion people still live in a real democracy? To the average Indian, the question may seem ludicrous. Pick up an Indian newspaper or turn on the television, and it can feel like all ...

Two nations entered the 1990s as poor economies. In fact, India was ahead of China in per capita GDP until the mid-1980s. By ...

Knox Thames served as the State Department Special Advisor for Religious Minorities during both the Obama and Trump administrations. He is a Senior Fellow at Pepperdine University. Indian Prime ...

At IIT Madras, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar said India’s civilisational continuity and democratic choice shaped global political thought and continue to guide its partnerships with the West.

THE PHRASE “state election” does not do it justice. Over 150m people have registered to take part. They will throng to 174,351 polling stations in the course of seven rounds of voting spread over a ...

When Joe Biden convened his virtual Summit for Democracy today, Narendra Modi was among the attendees. The Indian prime minister is the steward of the world’s largest democracy. Any conversation about ...