India News News India » Politics: The question dominating Indian politics: Is it worse when women swear?
Rahul Gandhi's comments renew the debate over gender disparity in reactions to insults hurled at PM Narendra Modi.
News India » Politics: India’s cockroach politics is no joke
Two months after the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) went viral in India, its followers have entered dangerous territory. Police forcefully removed educator-activist Sonam Wangchuk from the CJP’s sit-in ...
News India » Politics: India’s cockroach movement: how satire became political power as youth protest forced change
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 ...
News India » Politics: India’s ‘political iftars’ once stopped riots. Are they corrupt stunts now?
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 ...
News India » Politics: Democracy Disfigured: India’s Political Devolution
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi installs the Sengol at the new parliament building in New Delhi, May 28, 2023. Credit: Prime Minister Office of India On May 28, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...
News India » Politics: The Rise of Personality Politics in India
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 ...
News India » Politics: Will India’s ‘Cockroach’ movement force Modi’s BJP to rethink its politics?
Modi’s BJP once controlled media narratives in India, but this might be changing with the ‘Cockroach’ movement.
News India » Politics: India's Modi tightens political grip with historic state victory — but can it usher in reforms and draw investors?
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's political party won its first-ever state elections in West Bengal. Modi’s popularity was seen to be waning when, two years ago, his party failed to secure a ...
News India » Politics: India state polls deepen Hindu-Muslim political divide, results show
NEW DELHI, May 7 (Reuters) - India's main opposition Congress party drew increasingly strong backing from Muslim voters while Hindus overwhelmingly voted for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party, ...
News India » Politics: Hariprasad echoes Siddaramaiah, says Indian politics is polluted
Karnataka Pradesh Congress Committee President BK Hariprasad on Monday expressed deep concern over the "polluted" state of Indian politics, stating that the current landscape is dominated by money and ...
News India » Politics: India has a new political superstar - a cockroach
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 ...