Globalization and democracy

Jorge Heine 11 May 2011
The Democracy Manifesto signals that the time has come to open ourselves to the many ways in which the demos, that is, the people, organize themselves around the world to take charge of their own destiny.

The India-Israel relationship: what it means for secularism

Pratyush 3 May 2011
India's relationship with Israel has the potential to shift the broader Middle Eastern narrative, affirming India's commitment to pluralism.

Dealing with diversity the North-American way

Shilpa Kameswaran 11 April 2011
Being ‘caste-blind’ in economically shining India might be a wonderful way to fight caste-demarcations in urban mega-centres. But, being ‘culture-blind’ could prove very short-sighted in the long run. A reply to Rajeev Bhargava

States, religious diversity, and the crisis of secularism

Rajeev Bhargava 22 March 2011
In India, the existence of deep religious diversity has ensured a conceptual response not only to problems within but also between religions. Without taking it as a blue print, the west must examine the Indian conception and learn from it, regarding peace between communities, community-specific rights, the rights of minorities, the porous divide between the modern state and religion, and the skills to accommodate the latter. They might begin by jettisoning the preoccupation with ‘equal treatment’.

India, Arab democracy, and human rights

Meenakshi Ganguly 8 March 2011
The democracy uprisings in the Arab world hold a lesson for New Delhi, says Meenakshi Ganguly: the need for a foreign-policy stance that matches India's global ambitions.

‘Where is India’s Tahrir Square?’

Saroj Giri 17 February 2011
This is a question that may be as interesting for people in Egypt as it is for those in India. The answer also has some implications for activists in the much-vaunted western democracies

Contradictions of ‘development’ in contemporary India

Swapna Banerjee-Guha 7 February 2011
Is India moving on a path towards segregating society, enclaving economic space in a way that essentially excludes the majority from the development orbit?

Indian constitutional democracy: a freedom in crisis

Vijay Nagaraj 25 January 2011
Declining political morality and increasing moral policing are suffocating the rule of law in India, shrinking spaces for civil dialogue and threatening freedom of speech, says Vijay Nagaraj

Trouble ahead in Nepal

Subindra Bogati 17 January 2011
While the major political parties are busying themselves in realpolitik, the rest of the country, especially the southern part of Nepal and the hilly districts of west, feel that there is no government to speak of

Mobilising for Muslim women’s rights in India

Nida Kirmani 14 January 2011
The emerging Muslim women-led networks in India are challenging the authority of the religious elite to represent the ‘Muslim community’ while re-framing the category ‘Muslim women’ in order to assert political agency

India’s quest for nuclear energy

Rupakjyoti Borah 5 January 2011
As India sets about generating more than twelve times its current level of nuclear power by 2035, it seldom encounters countries insisting on the letter of the Nuclear NPT.

After protests, militancy in the Valley

Fahad Shah 20 December 2010
The killing of a young Kashmiri heralds renewed militancy in the Kashmir valley after summer's protest movement.

The gay Orient

Amit Julka 14 December 2010
The west, unlike India, for example, has unwittingly created a wedge between ‘straightness’ and ‘gayness’ that makes it difficult for society to accept homosexuality as ‘normal’.

Gender and the perils of identity politics in India

Zoya Hasan 30 November 2010
Hindu women’s activism in the service of the political goals of the BJP and the Sangh Parivar and the debates around the legal rights of Muslim women illustrate the perils of identity politics in matters of gender equality

Emerged India: enter a great power

Chris Ogden 11 November 2010
India can no longer be ignored. It is a necessary and valuable partner, and this is something on which the rest of the world can take their lead from the US. But how will Delhi respond?
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