The contents of Prem Shankar Jha’s latest book The Dismantling of India’s Democracy: 1947 to 2025 have an uncanny resonance ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. Karuna Nundy (@karunanundy) is an Advocate at the Supreme Court of India, and an ...

India’s celebrated GDP growth masks flawed data, elite-driven consumption, weak investment, joblessness, and deep ...

Explores India's claim as the Mother of Democracy, supported by ancient governance, coins evidence, and civilisational unity ...

New Delhi — People started casting votes Friday in India in what's set to be the largest general election ever held anywhere in the world, with nearly 1 billion eligible voters. The election will be ...

Join the IICDEM 2026 Delhi to explore global electoral practices. A landmark event for democracy awaits from January 21 to 23.

Every new year begins with the audacity of contrived hope, for individuals and nations. Last year, I had written about Nine ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi opened the 2023 G20 Summit in New Delhi by stating that ‘India's G20 presidency has become a symbol of inclusion … it has become a People's G20’. This rhetoric gels ...

CHENNAI - Close to 970 million Indians start voting today as India holds its general election with polls suggesting that incumbent Prime Minister, Narendra Modi will win a third term in the world's ...

Shared democratic values have long been the bedrock of the U.S.-India partnership, as reinforced in the Biden administration’s National Security Strategy, which emphasizes shared interest in a “free ...

In the run-up to hosting the G-20 summit this year, India has begun marketing itself as the “mother of democracies.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi began to emphasize this idea last year, both ...

India is rising as a major power in Asia, now the most populous country in the world surpassing China, and poised for rapid economic growth. As India rises, so does global awareness of its complicated ...