How do you count to 1.45bn? Start with 3.5m. That is the number of people who will knock on doors, compile spreadsheets and crunch data to conduct a new census in India, the world’s most populous ...

For decades, one family has towered over Indian politics. The influence of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty—including i India’s first ...

Hat Yai Flooding Catastrophe a Massive Blow to Thailand’s PM Anutin Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi installs the Sengol at the new parliament building in New Delhi, May 28, 2023. Credit: Prime ...

This month’s episode of Beyond the Indus explores the rise of Hindu politics outside India, and how it is changing the dynamic of Hindu communities and diaspora worldwide. We speak to Biswas Baral, ...

The religious bigotry struck at the heart of India’s secular democratic foundation and the constitutional values.

Another family member’s claim to power indicates that the leadership is not always immune to internal challenges, rebellions ...

New Delhi | Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor said dynastic politics across the political spectrum poses a "grave threat" to Indian democracy and asserted that it is high time India traded ...

While attending a wedding in March, M. K. Stalin, the chief minister of India’s fastest-growing state, Tamil Nadu, made a peculiar request: “Earlier we used to say, take your time and have a baby. But ...

When Indira Gandhi became India's first female Prime Minister in 1966 (and the only one ever since), she might have unknowingly set the wheels in motion for a new wave of feminism in India. At a time ...

The 18th Lok Sabha, elected in 2024, best tells this tale: the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance, with 293 seats, boasts not a single Christian MP, a “minority-mukt” group that ...