India’s Youth Revolt Is Structural, Not Partisan
On July 25, protests in Delhi led by the satirically named Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) forced the resignation of India’s federal cabinet minister for education, Dharmendra Pradhan, after weeks of demonstrations over a leaked national medical college entrance examination (known as NEET). The protest…
SAV Q&A with Vijaita Singh: Protests, Politics, and Reform in Today’s India
The 37-day protest staged by the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) about the leak of exam papers and education policy in India quickly became a referendum on India’s economy, state violence, and the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP)’s hold on and approach…
India’s Nuclear Bet: Liberalization, Small Reactors, and Big Ambitions
Below, Hely Desai analyzes India’s development of small modular reactors and its implications for New Delhi’s nuclear energy and economic goals. In a recent piece, Brigadier (Retd). Zahir Kazmi responds with some of the concerns that this development generates in…
India’s Domestic Outlook in 2024: Modi Era Powers On but Economic Concerns Continue
As 2024 comes to an end, India finds itself out of step with global trends. Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government was not swept away by the global anti-incumbency wave. Conflicts in Europe and West Asia did not pose fundamental threats,…
Jammu & Kashmir Assembly Elections: A New Dawn?
After a gap of ten years, elections for Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir’s (J&K) Legislative Assembly were finally held from September 18 to October 1, 2024. While the National Conference (NC) and its alliance partners won a total of 49 seats,…
इंडिया शाइनिंग 2.0: बीजेपी की फीकी पड़ती चमक
अपने पहले पाँच वर्षों के सफल कार्यकाल के दम पर, 2004 के चुनाव में भारतीय जनता पार्टी (भाजपा) ने अत्यंत उत्साहपूर्वक वापस विजयी होने की अपेक्षा कि की थी | उस चुनाव के दौरान भाजपा का नारा था "इंडिया शाइनिंग” और…