Jawaharlal Nehru
India as a ‘soft state’
The citizens of Nehruvian and post-Nehruvian India often attempted to justify their vulnerability by claiming to be preoccupied with loftier things
One Vote for One Nation That Is Bharat
By the way, were Indira and Nehru anti-federal because they held all elections on a single day?
An Exceptional Tryst
India has reinvented both patriotism and nationalism by infusing them with the republican spirit
A Constitutional Promise
Defenders of the idea of a Uniform Civil Code had hoped it would become a reality but the divisions seen in the Constituent Assembly took a turn for the worse in subsequent decades
The House Modi Built
The new parliament connects the seat of Indian democracy with the country’s ancient traditions
A Whiff of Mandal
The Opposition’s demand for a caste-based census is a desperate gambit to splinter Modi’s Hindu constituency
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