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 ...

On a recent Sunday afternoon, Vineeta Gupta hosted 20 Indian American women at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Fueled by chana masala, naan and rice pudding, they wrote hundreds of postcards in ...

The challenge for India is no longer how to ensure Bangladesh’s stability, but how to engage a Bangladesh that is politically restless, socially mobilized, and strategically self-aware. Security ...

New Delhi, India – It was the month of Ramadan in 1974, and the northern city of Lucknow, a hub of India’s Shia community, was on the boil. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, a stalwart of India’s then-ruling ...

Several Kashmiri political figures, including former members of banned separatist groups, have abandoned long-held separatist leanings and joined mainstream Indian politics. This shift in the disputed ...

As a high-achieving group with an iron-clad will set on actualizing the American dream, it was only a matter of time before Indian Americans became politically active en masse. There’s Bobby Jindal, ...

Little-known political parties are receiving millions in donations despite limited electoral activity.

India, the world’s largest democracy, faces the monumental task of conducting elections for a staggering electorate of over 1 billion voters. To put this into perspective, India’s voter base is almost ...

These words were posted online on May 16 by 30-year-old Abhijeet Dipke, an Indian political communication strategist studying at Boston University in the US. He was responding to a comment from ...

When India’s top court banned a controversial scheme in February 2024 that allowed individuals and corporates to make anonymous donations to political parties through opaque electoral bonds, many ...

High drama erupted in the small hours of a suspense-filled January day in Kolkata. Masked officers of the Enforcement Directorate swept into the glossy offices of I-PAC (Indian Political Action ...

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 ...