India at 75: Championing democracy abroad, hollowing it out at home

Western allies are likely to ignore the country’s transition into an ethnocracy given its role in balancing China.

Indrajit Roy

· Aug 10, 2022 · 09:00 am

Welfare, Hindutva and Bengali nativism: The political ideas that shaped the 2021 Bengal polls

If Trinamool’s welfare provided dignity to the poor, the BJP tried to do the same by offering a Hindu rashtra where backward castes would be better treatment.

Indrajit Roy

· May 08, 2021 · 07:30 am

Modi’s India proves that liberal economics can happily coexist with political illiberalism

Going against conventional wisdom, the Indian middle class is not a source of liberalism. 

Indrajit Roy

· Mar 21, 2021 · 09:00 am

Why is the media outraging against OBC reservations when it’s the higher castes who have cornered jobs?

Misjudged reports have compared reservations for Other Backward Classes to those for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. They are looking at the issue all wrong.

Indrajit Roy

· May 14, 2015 · 08:30 pm

When Modi mocks NREGA, he ridicules the 80 million Indians contributing to the nation’s development

The prime minister feels the scheme is just about digging ditches. He would do better looking at government statistics and talking to the country's poor.

Indrajit Roy

· Mar 28, 2015 · 08:50 am