Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi installs the Sengol at the new parliament building in New Delhi, May 28, 2023. Credit: Prime Minister Office of India On May 28, 2023, Prime Minister Narendra Modi ...

Cockroach Janta party began as online joke but is growing into one of the most unexpected challenges to country’s rightwing government ...

Indian elections are no longer just battles between political parties. They are becoming contests between larger-than-life personalities — and no leader has reshaped this political culture more ...

How do you count to 1.45bn? Start with 3.5m. That is the number of people who will knock on doors, compile spreadsheets and crunch data to conduct a new census in India, the world’s most populous ...

Like the British Raj, Hindu nationalists promote ideas about history that are neither truly Indian nor accurate.

NARENDRA MODI, India’s prime minister, is a once-in-a-generation political phenomenon. He commands support for his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) across class, caste and language. He is the face of his ...

From Maharashtra to West Bengal, a series of electoral setbacks and defections is raising questions about the future role of ...

Indian politics has acquired an unusual mascot: the cockroach. A satirical collective that takes inspiration from the insect – stubborn, reviled and considered indestructible – has attracted millions ...

Indian politics has acquired an unusual mascot: the cockroach. It's not the lotus of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), India's governing party, or the hand symbol of the opposition Congress, but the ...

In the world’s largest democracy, a hidden data trove and filmmaker testimonies reveal how India’s censorship regime has now evolved from simply cutting minor scenes to suppressing hard truths. The ...

The dominant figure in Indian politics for nearly two decades, she was elected prime minister four times before being assassinated by her bodyguards. Indira Gandhi in 1963. She served as India’s ...