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Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat at Smruti Mandir in Nagpur on March 30, 2025.

The Sangh-sevak reunion: A strategic recalibration for BJP and RSS

Modi’s visit to RSS HQ shows BJP still needs the Sangh’s ground game—and the Sangh still hasn’t found a better bet than Modi, despite the discomfort.

Vehicles set ablaze following clashes at the Chitnis Park Square area in Nagpur on March 17, 2025.

Old formula, new laboratory: Hindutva finds fresh ground in Maharashtra

The Sangh Parivar is testing an old playbook in a once reformist State. Hate speech, street violence, and cultural flashpoints signal the shift.

Delimitation debate: Why southern States fear losing political voice after 2026

States fear delimitation based on population will reduce their parliamentary representation, punishing them for successful population control efforts.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Courts want deeper inquiry into Kapil Mishra’s role in 2020 Delhi riots

Opposition parties demand Mishra’s resignation as Law Minister as judicial scrutiny intensifies around his alleged hate speech before the riots.

People take part in a protest by the All India Muslim Personal Law Board against the Waqf (Amendment) Bill, at Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on March 17, 2025.

Waqf Amendment Bill controversy: All you need to know

Ahead of a heated Parliamentary debate, a closer look at all aspects and criticisms of the Bill along with what it means for India’s Muslims.

WAQF BILL DEBATE

NDA partners under pressure amid Waqf Bill controversy and namaz row

The coming days will test the ability of these parties to balance their regional political interests while negotiating the BJP’s hard line agenda.

JAMMU AND KASHMIR

In Kashmir, the UAPA enacts a politics of discipline

Engineer Rashid’s case shows how the law converts accusation into punishment, proving democracy in Kashmir is both permitted and contained by design.

Peerzada Raouf,Samyuktha Kannan

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Buddhist monks hold placards during a protest demanding the repeal of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act in Thane, Maharashtra on March 25.

The battle for Bodh Gaya’s sacred heart

An old dispute over control of the Mahabodhi Mahavihara enters a new phase, as Buddhists and Hindus dig in amid growing calls for change.

BJP leader Vishwajit Pratapsingh Rane greeted by supporters on the counting day of the 2022 Assembly election in North Goa district.

Goa Minister Vishwajit Rane faces civil society ire over land transfer law

Calls for Rane’s resignation intensified after the High Court struck down the controversial amendment, but he remains defiant.

Delhi CM Rekha Gupta presents her maiden budget on March 25, 2025. In her first Budget after becoming CM, the poll promises that led the BJP to victory in the Assembly election were repeatedly emphasised.

BJP bets big on a record Budget in Delhi

But rising debt, missing data, and old welfare schemes cast doubt on its claims of change.

A float portraying the leader of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union, Friedrich Merz, as a donkey trying to pull a cart filled with political problems, in the Rose Monday parade in Duesseldorf on March 3.

Carl Schmitt was right: The sovereign decides the exception

His idea of sovereignty as the power to declare exceptions explains today’s political crises better than the fading certainties of liberal theory.

Karthick Ram Manoharan

Nepal Prime Minister K.P. Oli with his Indian counterpart Prime Minister Narendra Modi after a meeting at Hyderabad House, in New Delhi on April 7, 2018.

Modi’s South Asia policy: ‘Neighbourhood First’ to ‘Arc of Hostility’

A decade after Modi’s foreign policy pivot, Nepal is turning hostile—disenchanted with democracy, flirting with monarchy, and leaning towards China.

Mani Shankar Aiyar

Inmates at a de-addiction and rehabilitation centre in Daulatpur village on the outskirts of Patiala attending a counselling session on January 21, 2017.

Punjab’s war on drugs: A crisis deferred, not defeated

AAP, elected on its “war on drugs” promise, lurches from deadline to deadline as it struggles to escape a deepening administrative morass in Punjab.

Ashutosh Sharma

Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati at a rally ahead of the Lok Sabha elections, in Moradabad on April 15, 2024.

How BSP’s decline changed Dalit politics in Uttar Pradesh

Dalit voters are now divided among SP, BJP, and Chandrashekhar Azad’s party. The future of Dalit politics is more open—and more contested—than ever.

Nilakantan R.S. says delimitation will penalise southern States for population control success. He calls for a rethink on centralisation.

The only answer is to decentralise: Nilakantan R.S.

The data scientist and author argues that extreme decentralisation is key to addressing the North-South divide and the looming delimitation crisis.

The main street of Ajmer, Rajasthan that leads to the shrine of Khwaja Moinuddin Chishti. According to the 2011 Census, Muslims make up 9.1 per cent of the population in Rajasthan, much lower than the national average.

Rajasthan’s anti-conversion law: A deliberate assault on constitutional liberties

Criminalising personal faith under the guise of combating ‘unlawful conversion’, the new law institutionalises harassment, empowers vigilantes.

T.K. Rajalakshmi

At a protest by BJP supporters over the alleged TASMAC liquor scam, in Chennai on March 17, 2025. The BJP and the AIADMK are turning the heat on the ruling DMK in the wake of the ED raids in the State.

ED spikes the punch

Latest spell of “liquor” raids in opposition-ruled States reignites accusations of “political vendetta”.

R.K. Radhakrishnan

Telangana Chief Minister A. Revanth Reddy with Deputy Chief Minister and Finance Minister Mallu Bhatti Vikramarka before the presentation of the State Budget for 2025-26 in the State Assembly, in Hyderabad on March 19, 2025.

Telangana Budget 2025-26: High promises, tight purse

The Rs.3.04 lakh crore Budget outlay focusses on the Congress’ election promises, but rising debt and low actual spending may limit its impact.

Chief Minister M.K. Stalin at a public meeting in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, on March 3.

Tamil Nadu is BJP’s toughest test against cultural uniformity

The Dravidian template of rationalism, social justice, and regional pride challenges BJP-RSS in ways that other unconquered territories do not.

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