As elections to the Delhi Assembly draw near, the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the right-wing BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party) are in overdrive to show which of them is more anti-immigrant. The ...

Indian elections are no longer just battles between political parties. They are becoming contests between larger-than-life personalities — and no leader has reshaped this political culture more ...

Like the British Raj, Hindu nationalists promote ideas about history that are neither truly Indian nor accurate.

Indian politics has acquired an unusual mascot: the cockroach. It's not the lotus of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India's governing party, or the hand symbol of the opposition Congress, but the ...

The violent crisis between India and Pakistan is exactly the kind of international emergency that would once have prompted a full-on US diplomatic drive to cool tempers and head off a wider war.

In the world’s largest democracy, a hidden data trove and filmmaker testimonies reveal how India’s censorship regime has now evolved from simply cutting minor scenes to suppressing hard truths. The ...

Why are entire political parties breaking apart in India? Why are mass defections becoming increasingly common? And what does it mean for the future of regional parties, the INDIA bloc and Indian ...