Siddharth Singh

Christophe Jaffrelot’s argument that India has moved towards an ethnic democracy does not stand scrutiny

India remains a democracy and has been so except for a brief period when elections were suspended and fundamental rights curbed across the land

The renewed threat to India is Pakistan which has finally gained strategic depth on its western front

The problem for India is not a loss of opportunities in Afghanistan. It is what Pakistan will do

What should the government spend money on?

What Modi has done over time, especially by providing public goods that were earlier local in nature, is to greatly weaken the salience of caste-based politics

Afghanistan was never a viable nation-state and is unlikely to be one in future. The roots of the Afghan chaos are to be found in the country’s divisions

Establishing a new business, choosing what to consume and relatively lower taxes are still ideologically suspect

A star economist recounts his experience as a policy wonk