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Ashutosh Varshney

Ashutosh Varshney

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What are the larger implications of Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest for India’s democracy?

What are the larger implications of Arvind Kejriwal’s arrest for India’s democracy? And why has India’s ruling regime embarked on such an...

28.03.2024 10

Indian Express

Ashutosh Varshney

A fundamental rearrangement of the polity should be based on a larger consensus, not on a brute majority

Would the Ram Nath Kovind panel’s One Nation, One Election recommendations, if implemented, promote national unity or weaken it? While this is not...

18.03.2024 10

Indian Express

Ashutosh Varshney

Hindu nationalism has taken first steps toward establishing a Jim Crow system

The Jim Crow project was not eliminationist. Hindu nationalists likewise seek not the physical elimination of Muslims, but rather their relegation to...

27.01.2024 20

ThePrint

Ashutosh Varshney

To see temple consecration as a decisive victory of Hindu theocracy, or as the establishment of a Hindu nation, would be an overstatement

Symbolically and discursively, the consecration of a Ram temple in Ayodhya has dealt a monumental blow to India’s constitutional republic. Legally...

27.01.2024 10

Indian Express

Ashutosh Varshney

Why has the South escaped BJP’s electoral juggernaut? Part of the answer is historical-cum-ideological

After each election, there is an understandable popular desire for a simple narrative that can explain the results. Sometimes, it is possible to do...

06.12.2023 20

Indian Express

Ashutosh Varshney

The Communist Party in China does not accept any challenges to its monopoly over power.

Is there a non-electoral way of conceptualising democracy? This question featured prominently in a conference I recently attended at Zhejiang...

19.09.2023 9

Indian Express

Ashutosh Varshney

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