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Terms of Trade | Fighting communalism requires politics, not moral indignation

Rewards of communal politics for BJP need to be understood in historical context and current social contradictions rather than condemning it on...

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Will the 2024 polls be a watershed or inconsequential for India’s democracy?

Is the BJP’s dominance only generating unease among the political elite outside the BJP’s fold rather than the people at large?

16.04.2024 4

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Terms of Trade | Indian liberals are having a Hilary Clinton moment

Rather than call BJP supporters bigoted, and imagine a progressive voter base for the opposition, we need to understand the complex nature of Indian...

11.04.2024 3

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Terms of Trade | What critique of BJP gets wrong about Indian democracy

Arguments on democratic backsliding in India focus less on the concentration of power, as it should, and instead on the behaviour of the political...

05.04.2024 10

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What explains the disconnect between economic inequality and politics in India?

The World Inequality Lab's report on India's inequality has stirred debate. But a more interesting question is the muting of inequality as a factor in...

29.03.2024 6

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Terms of Trade | Transparency is overrated in realpolitik in India

The fight for political transparency is important for India's institutions, but transparency is not the driving factor when it comes to political...

22.03.2024 3

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From coalition-dharma to coalition-karma for BJP’s allies

Unlike the Congress, which was lopsided in terms of caste and class, the BJP’s growth has been linked to the widening of Indian politics’ social...

14.03.2024 4

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Opposition must revisit its economic approach if it wants to change the future

If the Opposition has to have a fighting chance against the BJP, it must fight the economic battles of the future — inequality and limited upward...

08.03.2024 2

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Terms of Trade | Will HCES findings change politics in India?

The inherent class tension in India’s political economy landscape will only increase going forward despite what happens to official poverty numbers

29.02.2024 3

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Terms of Trade | India needs a White Paper on agriculture

Neither farmers' movements nor governments are fighting for issues which are critical to its long-term sustainability. Somebody needs to fill this...

16.02.2024 10

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Terms of Trade | Is ‘Bharat’ the new Davos?

BJP's ability to celebrate economic austerity in a country with millions of poor voters is a political economy chutzpah worth examining in detail

09.02.2024 4

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Terms of Trade | Modinomics, beyond the budget

A gist of the economic paradigm which the Narendra Modi government seems to have adopted and executed perfectly

02.02.2024 4

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Terms of Trade | Move over socialism, the joke’s on liberalism now

The hope and heartbreak of liberals is symptomatic of their misplaced trust not in the BJP or Modi, but the model of capitalism which dominates the...

26.01.2024 10

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The temple and its politics, for the ruling BJP and the Opposition parties

Why does the Opposition remain in an unclear ideological position vis-à-vis the inauguration of the Ram temple?

19.01.2024 10

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Why is the BJP immune from the anger of a K-shaped economic recovery?

The best way to answer this question is to develop a framework of voters, consumers and investors in the Indian economy

12.01.2024 5

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What truck strikes and overcrowded trains have to do with Indian politics

Hit-and-run accidents are a political economy issue too. Rogue drivers – and Indian roads – are a result of poor regulation and cost-cutting

04.01.2024 6

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Terms of Trade | The year-ender essay on India's political economy

A weakening of parliamentary opposition or even independent institutions does not mean the BJP is immune to democratic pushbacks.

27.12.2023 4

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Terms of Trade | Three lessons for the Congress party before 2024

Congress must steer clear of political pundits with unfounded theories of the Hindi-speaking voter, and state satraps must do some soul-searching

05.12.2023 3

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Terms of Trade | The conundrum facing Congress and BJP

Leaders would like their state units to change themselves to suit national politics, but state leaders only follow instructions if it helps to retain...

01.12.2023 5

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Terms of Trade | Gentrification of consumer demand, global capitalism

India’s consumer economy is a story of two economies: Expensive mobile phones get sold out within minutes; many struggle to deal with a rise in...

18.11.2023 8

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Terms of Trade| Redistribution is dead, long live redistribution!

Two important recent announcements — a welfare scheme and extending reservation — show us the state of the political economy of India in the...

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Terms of Trade | A state-wise look at the stakes in upcoming assembly polls

It's not quite the semis before the final, as many would have you believe. But, the impact of the results on the rest of India can't be overlooked,...

03.11.2023 3

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Terms of Trade | Is there economic anger among Indian voters today?

The Opposition could exploit India’s structural economic fault lines to inflict damage on the BJP, but does it have a leadership which can sell this...

27.10.2023 6

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Terms of Trade | Goodbye economic policy, hello electoral populism!

The irony is that India’s economic trajectory of progression after Independence has been accompanied by a severe retrogression in our economic...

20.10.2023 9

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Terms of Trade | Let’s discuss India’s growth forecast

Two questions require rigorous examination: Is India the new global growth driver? Where will India’s own big driver for future growth come from?

13.10.2023 9

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Terms of Trade | How will proportionate reservation demand affect politics?

An extra-parliamentary political churning of the kind that existed pre-1990s is in the offing if, or rather, when the BJP takes a stand

06.10.2023 8

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Terms of Trade | India’s education system is broken

Kota and Mukherjee Nagar are prime examples. Here’s what we need to consider to begin fixing the problem

29.09.2023 4

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Terms of Trade | Congress has embraced Mandal but will it reap the rewards?

Mandal politics led to the BJP replacing the Congress. Even today, there’s no reason why the BJP won’t benefit from the demand for OBC reservation

22.09.2023 4

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Terms of Trade | Why Congress' trollification is bad for its political prospects

Ideological commitment, organisational perseverance and tactical clarity rather than just shrill rhetoric in social media echo chambers is the need of...

15.09.2023 10

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Terms of Trade | Making sense of Dravidian assertion 2.0

Hindutva’s rhetoric will tempt Dravidian politics to harden its own cultural rhetoric but the latter does not have the numerical strength to take on...

08.09.2023 10

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