From checks and balances to compliance: How the judiciary has responded to government pressure

Debasish Roy Chowdhury John Keane

· Dec 21, 2021 · 08:30 am

State’s force should never be used to browbeat political opinions, says Supreme Court

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· Dec 10, 2021 · 10:08 pm

Gautam Patel: ‘History will not judge us by our highways, but how we preserve the idea of India’

Gautam Patel, The Leaflet

· Nov 30, 2021 · 09:00 am

Lessons from ‘Star Wars’ about the decline of democracy

David Kennedy, The Conversation Conor Casey, The Conversation

· Nov 25, 2021 · 11:30 pm

India, US and Brazil showed most worrying examples of decline in democratic tenets in 2020: Report

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· Nov 23, 2021 · 04:30 pm

Going by Home Minister Amit Shah’s logic, to strengthen democracy, Kashmir must lose it first

Ipsita Chakravarty

· Oct 27, 2021 · 06:30 am

Nobel Peace Prize for journalists is a reminder that press freedom is under threat worldwide

Kathy Kiely, The Conversation

· Oct 10, 2021 · 07:30 pm

We can’t just rely on government for truth, says SC judge, cites manipulation of Covid data globally

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· Aug 28, 2021 · 07:14 pm

In authoritarian regimes, political institutions may look democratic even when they are not

Zeynep Menteşoğlu Tardivo, The Loop

· Jul 31, 2021 · 09:30 pm

What motivates Chinese activists and journalists to tell the truth in the face of repression?

Tao Zhang, The Conversation

· Jul 20, 2021 · 09:30 pm

How governments worldwide are using Covid-19 as an excuse to crack down on press freedom

Sara Torsner, The Conversation Jackie Harrison, The Conversation

· Apr 23, 2021 · 09:30 pm

Sarkozy, Zuma, Áñez: Former presidents around the world are being hauled to court

Victor Menaldo, The Conversation James D Long, The Conversation

· Mar 20, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Discussed human rights violation in India with ministers of Modi government: US defense secretary

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· Mar 20, 2021 · 08:35 pm

How do state governments sustain the illusion of governance even when they fail their people?

N Kalyan Raman

· Mar 20, 2021 · 08:30 am

Saddam Hussein, Gaddafi also won elections, says Rahul Gandhi, criticises PM Modi

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· Mar 16, 2021 · 11:10 pm

Foreign minister rejects reports questioning democracy in India, says ‘enough of these homilies’

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· Mar 15, 2021 · 06:02 pm

India has turned into an ‘electoral autocracy’, says Swedish institute

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· Mar 10, 2021 · 10:39 pm

‘India’s illiberal slide has been steady and swift’: Journalist Fareed Zakaria

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· Mar 09, 2021 · 11:49 am

How did some legislatures hold governments to account during Covid-19? And why did others fail?

Nic Cheeseman, The Conversation Rebecca Gordon, The Conversation

· Jan 31, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Watch: Hindi poetry performance evaluates the ‘state of our democracy’ based on the events of 2020

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· Jan 26, 2021 · 12:14 pm