Narendra Modi

No confusion: Modi’s campaign is complex, layered and carefully crafted

The Narendra Modi campaign has orchestrated several motifs and hooks through each phase of the election, each tailored for each region while the recurrent theme has been muscular nationalism.
▶08-May-2019
Bharat Bhushan

Election Campaigning in a Transformed India

The Lok Sabha elections of 2019 are being held in a country that is very different from what it was in 2009 and 2014. What are political parties offering the new electorate? What will the outcome…
▶07-May-2019
Manjari Katju

Coercion, Construction, and 'ODF paper pe'

The Swachh Bharat Mission has turned out to be a top-down programme in which villagers are often coerced into building latrines, with relatively little focus on latrine use. A field survey challenges…
▶05-Mar-2019
Aashish Gupta, Nazar Khalid, Payal Hathi, Nikhil Srivastav, Sangita Vyas, Diane Coffey

The Mirage of Modinomics

Over-promise and under-deliver has been the story of the Narendra Modi government's management of the economy.
▶22-Feb-2019
Maitreesh Ghatak, Udayan Mukherjee