Picture this scene: With general elections looming, the leader of the main opposition party is unseated from Parliament, and 146 members of Parliament find themselves suspended for daring to question the government. The bank account of the main opposition party is frozen. Federal agencies incarcerate two sitting chief ministers from opposition parties under draconian money … Read more
One week is a long time in Indian politics. And over just a week in March, the image of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) changed significantly. On March 14, two former bureaucrats were appointed election commissioners despite protests by the opposition, the discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) rules had just been notified and fuel prices … Read more
Advertisement Even as the violence between Meitei and Kuki ethnic groups shows no signs of abating after ravaging the northeast Indian state of Manipur for over three months, Hindu-Muslim communal violence broke out in the predominantly Muslim district of Nuh in Haryana, which borders the Indian capital of New Delhi. The violence in Nuh began … Read more