Ashutosh Varshney

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Where is the evidence for North-South political faultline?

December 21, 2023 9:54 am

The divide in the polity is real and has been so for some time. But raising it to a faultline using untenable hypotheses does not explain that enigma; instead, it could add to the prevailing incendiary rhetoric

Ashutosh Varshney writes: In China, the challenge of democracy without elections

September 19, 2023 12:02 pm

The Communist Party does not accept any challenges to its monopoly over power. A way out is to intellectually formulate a non-electoral conception of democracy and propagate it to the world. But that comes with its own challenges

Ashutosh Varshney writes: What the outcome in Karnataka will achieve — and what it will not

May 18, 2023 11:21 am

We don’t have evidence that Hindu nationalism has lost its salience. But we do have a blueprint for how such salience can be electorally countered

Politics as unusual

January 10, 2014 12:17 am

But AAP’s real challenge will be to find ways to enhance routine accountability.

One problem is The Dynasty

December 12, 2013 3:30 am

Congress’s secular nationalist narrative has lost its vigour. Internal elections must be brought back even if they oust its first family.

Middle class will be more active in politics: Varshney

December 11, 2013 2:22 am

Varshney focused on how India had been an exception among low-income countries,emerging from decolonisation.

Against All Odds

November 30, 2013 5:10 am

Despite its many problems,the robustness of India’s democracy comes from its political system.

Citizens of tomorrow

October 31, 2013 3:00 am

How rapid urbanisation will unravel the politics of caste.

A strange fire

September 20, 2013 3:30 am

Why the Muzaffarnagar riots were a departure from past trends.

Not only Telangana

August 27, 2013 12:09 am

UPA has missed the moment to set up a second states reorganisation commission.

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