Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)

In Campaign 2024, the BJP's Hindutva Contends With the Congress Party's Nyay

After floundering for a new identity the Congress has hit on 'Nyay': justice for 90% of the people. The BJP recognises the danger of this promise to reorder current privileges resonating…
▶25-Apr-2024
Suhas Palshikar
Explainer

One Nation, One Election: What will its Implementation Mean?

Simultaneous elections to the Lok Sabha and state assemblies will violate the principle of collective responsibility and will crush the federal ethos on which Indian parliamentary democracy is based.
▶04-Oct-2023
Manjari Katju

The Sophistry of Calls to Replace the Constitution

India’s Constitution is more robust than the politics of those who call for its replacement.
▶23-Aug-2023
Rohin Bhatt

Contours of Media Control in India

The Bharatiya Janata Party-led government continues to aim for narrative control of the media. Since print and television news have already been coopted and no longer pose a problem, the effort now…
▶14-Mar-2023
Sevanti Ninan

How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years (Video)

A video adaptation of Sevanti Ninan's article "How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years" (30 August, 2019). Courtesy "Free Speech Collective".
▶16-Nov-2019
Sevanti Ninan

In Kerala, Gains of Social Reform Form a Wall against BJP Entry

The rout in the Lok Sabha polls need not mark the demise of the Left in Kerala. If the Left were to draw on the power of its historical social reform movement that was rooted in a civilisational…
▶18-Jul-2019
Kesava Menon

The New Modi Wave as Seen from Eastern UP

Ahead of the May elections, observers in Gorakhpur in eastern UP could sense a groundswell of support for the BJP. The old caste dynamics had broken down and the efficient delivery of welfare…
▶09-Jul-2019
Shashank Chaturvedi, Sanjay Kumar Pandey, David N. Gellner

How India's Media Landscape Changed Over Five Years

Mainstream media was delegitimised over the past five years by the BJP government. Co-option and self-censorship by this media have followed. Alongside, the use of social media has grown hugely,…
▶06-Jun-2019
Sevanti Ninan

Electoral Choices of Govindan the Carpenter

If you belonged neither to the rich nor poor nor the middle class, but to the aspiring artisanal entrepreneur strata, what factors would have influenced your voting decision? Speculations on Govindan…
▶31-May-2019
Kesava Menon

Populism Plus

The Narendra Modi triumph has been built on two projects: one, the representation of Modi as the unquestioned populist leader who could be trusted to defend the nation’s security, and two, the long-…
▶30-May-2019
Partha Chatterjee