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As the global gaze turned to India in the run-up to the 2024 Lok Sabha election results, some elite American universities also weighed in with their analyses on critical issues such as voter mobilisation, the risk to India’s democratic institutions, and the diaspora’s perception of national politics.

On Kabul, Leonard Cohen, and the Trudeau split

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's social media feeds suggest he's been busy unveiling development projects and rubbing shoulders with foreign leaders — the powerhouse embodiment of an ascendant India shaking up the global order

India’s remote northeastern state of Manipur is caught in a deadly conflict between two ethnic communities that have armed themselves and launched brutal attacks against one another

Modi is being feted at the White House despite concerns over India’s democratic decline. The reason? China.

We have witnessed a fortnight of high drama. The contrasting images – of the prime minister of a secular country walking into a new Parliament building accompanied by saffron-clad Hindu priests even as award-winning women wrestlers literally wrestled with the police to assert their right to protest – were riveting. 

Analysts say leaders from South Asian rival countries were ‘more worried about internal politics than foreign policy’.

The South Asian rivals have always had a difficult relationship, but it is now at rock bottom.

Nuclear powers find common ground over Ukraine invasion despite being rivals