Rahul Gandhi is the descendant of three prime ministers. A surge of protests could give him a springboard to take on the ...

Activists challenging India’s government over electoral roll controversies have a long legacy of protest to draw on.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...

Bengaluru, India – In the sultry August heat of 2007, India’s government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sweating over the future of negotiations with the United States over a landmark nuclear ...

In a letter addressed to “young friends,” Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as India’s education minister on July 25 after taking “moral responsibility” for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) ...

Indian politics has acquired an unusual mascot: the cockroach. A satirical collective that takes inspiration from the insect – stubborn, reviled and considered indestructible – has attracted millions ...

The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in its efforts to naturalize and depoliticize its politics of identity engendered a narrative that the party is not indulged in majoritarian nationalism and its ...

Conservative party deputy leader Tim Uppal posted on social media on Wednesday morning, urging Sikhs to remember 1984. “Forty one years ago, a pre-planned attack by the Indian army named Operation ...

While attending a wedding in March, M. K. Stalin, the chief minister of India’s fastest-growing state, Tamil Nadu, made a peculiar request: “Earlier we used to say, take your time and have a baby. But ...

Elections in India — home to more than 1.4 billion people — are perpetual, noisy, and fiercely contested. Every few months, in the world’s largest democracy, millions line up to vote somewhere.

South Asia is witnessing a gradual shift in its geopolitical landscape which has high resistance level against India’s influence in South Asian countries. The “India Out” movement taking shape in ...

The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards. Indira Gandhi in 1963. She served as India’s ...