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Tickets are going for as high as $40,000 on the secondary market.
There are a few factors that may explain why support for Modi’s party has waned.
Narendra Modi and his BJP have some introspection to do after poorer election results than they had expected.
The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) was formed in 1925 to unite Hindus. Today, its far-right nationalist ideology has gone mainstream thanks to Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
On today’s Don’t Call Me Resilient podcast, political scientist Sikata Banerjee and cinema studies scholar Rakesh Sengupta explain how cinema and social media in India may be helping to sway voters.
Tens of millions of people have been exposed to conditions that threaten their health.
The Indian prime minister made reference to communities that have “too many children” in a veiled reference to Muslims.
Netflix’s new series is about the scheming, menacing and murderous courtesans of Heeramandi. Here’s their real history.
The Himalayas are a beautiful and fragile ecosystem that both humans and non-humans have relied upon for millennia. Protecting them will require careful conservation efforts.
New research examines the organisational reasons why Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party has been so successful at winning elections since 2014.
Modi has aimed to improve the lives of ordinary Indians, but some are still finding jobs hard to come by.
Thanks to a strong oral Urdu literary tradition in South Asia, poems from the past linger in the popular imagination.
The government’s alleged targeting of opposition figures, as well as a new system allowing anonymous donations to political parties, is believed to have given the BJP a huge edge.
Over the past decade, I have documented the erosion of India’s once robustly democratic legal system as part of Prime Minister Modi’s ‘authoritarian playbook’
Ahead of elections in India, a series of films that promote the ruling party’s right-wing ideology are seeking to influence voters. An art historian explains how the trend started.
The spirit of Baisakhi for Sikhs is reminiscent of the ideals of their gurus, who encouraged them to work toward building a just society.
India’s Modi may be betting on Trump’s return to the White House to build on their existing relationship.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi pledged major development projects in a visit to Kashmir last month. But many locals fear things will only worsen if the government is reelected.
For centuries, colonial powers have used starvation as a tool to control Indigenous populations and take over their land and wealth. A look back at two historic examples on two different continents.
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Lecturer in Global Development Politics, University of York
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Professor of International Relations, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, International Politics, University of Adelaide
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Professor of International Relations, Griffith University
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Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Tagore Chair in Indian Cultures and Civilizations, Indiana University
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Host of The Anthill Podcast, The Conversation
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Chairperson, Centre of Social Medicine and Community Health, Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Visiting Fellow, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Indian and Colonial History, University of Liverpool
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Distinguished Fellow, Australia-India Institute, The University of Melbourne
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Distinguished visiting professor, University of Glasgow
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Professor of the Politics of Development, University of Oxford
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Research Associate, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, University of the Witwatersrand
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Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at La Trobe University., La Trobe University
