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The popular decimation of India's democracy
Oped, Pranab Bardhan, Published on 18/05/2024
» India's ongoing parliamentary election, in which nearly a billion people casting their votes over a six-week period, should represent an extraordinary exercise of democracy. The bleak reality, however, is that the election appears poised to consolidate a decade-long process of democratic decay, which has included the decimation of liberal institutions and practices and weakening of political competition. After all, the leader who has presided over this process -- Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) -- remains wildly popular.
Better, in my book
Oped, Postbag, Published on 21/02/2023
» Re: "Reading a relationship", (BP, Feb 18). If former prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva agrees now to the offer of becoming a party-list member of the Democrat Party, he would be seen as lacking in principle.
India must prepare for a post-lockdown world
Oped, Pranab Dhal Samanta, Published on 15/04/2020
» The Covid-19 pandemic, by the time it's done, would have set the stage for altering the global power dynamic. International institutions are already coming under severe scrutiny and stress, while the good old nation-state, riding on strong nationalist sentiments, seems to be taking centre stage.