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Report lowering India’s status to ‘partly free’ under Modi is ‘misleading’, says Centre

India lost its status as ‘free’ in Freedom House’s 2021 report.

Scroll Staff
· Mar 05, 2021 · 08:33 pm
India loses its status as ‘free’ in Freedom House’s 2021 report

Political rights and civil liberties have worsened since Modi became PM in 2014, and the decline has accelerated since his re-election in 2019, the report said.

Scroll Staff
· Mar 03, 2021 · 07:44 pm
Why the British developed the idea of impeachment and then abandoned it

In the early 19th century, the British decided impeachment no longer served its purpose. Instead, they found a more effective way to handle a bad leader.

Eliga Gould, The Conversation
· Feb 15, 2021 · 11:30 pm

Jay Panda: India’s parliament is paralysed by 19th-century rules

Despite its apparent unwieldiness, India has defied naysayers who doubted the country could hold together at all, let alone as a democracy.

Baijayant ‘Jay’ Panda, qz.com
· Dec 16, 2015 · 07:30 pm