Expanding the Lok Sabha proportionally while preserving existing seats & equally distributing Rajya Sabha seats among states could resolve India’s delimitation deadlock without upsetting…
The challenges posed by a delimitation exercise that would result in the North gaining at the expense of the South can be met with a different approach altogether. We could have instead an expansion…
A parliamentary democracy thrives on diverse representation and opinion. The strong leader syndrome of the past decade is antithetical to such a democracy. Coalition governments have historically…
Anticolonial leaders saw self-rule as intrinsically linked to projects of political education and economic advancement. A new study that charts these links between development and democracy resonates…
Despite warts, the centrality of Parliament to the working of Indian democracy has not altered. Its symbolic resources continue to play an important role in legitimising regimes.
In his book on the crisis in democratic capitalism, Martin Wolf perceives a challenge to Western civilisation itself. This would require revolutionary change. But Wolf's project, instead, is to…
The idea of Athens as mother of democracy was pushed by modern scholars of ancient Greece and Rome. Ancient Greek and Roman writers on India themselves found several similarities with political…
“How did India reconcile the tensions between economic planning and liberal democracy? And how did this attempt shape the Indian republic’s formative years?”
