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The Virus and Democracy

Dipankar Gupta

How the East beat the West

The Liberal Waterloo

By destroying everything between the individual and the state, neo-liberals have signed their own death warrant

Trump And What Could Have Been

Where the revenge of the outsider has not enhanced freedom but diminished it

A Tale of Three Leaders

Trump, Johnson, Modi and the politics of change

The Legacy of Jinnah

The argument that had he lived longer, Pakistan would have evolved into a proper democracy is pure sophistry

Kesavananda Bharati: The Seer Who Dared

Kesavananda Bharati, who died on September 6th, did not win in court, but his 1973 case limited Parliament’s power to amend the Constitution. Indian democracy is indebted to him

The Silence of the Moderate

The shrinking middle in politics

Covid-19: Viral Information

Information management from one’s own citizens is never a good idea but it is especially problematic during a pandemic

Riot and Law

The right to peaceful protest is vital to democracy and needs protection

Ideas of the Nation

India is in the grip of the very majoritarianism that Ambedkar had warned against

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