Democracy
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Mauritius election: Scandals, low public trust and inflation give Opposition coalition clean sweep
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Ahead of elections, Mauritius’s attempt to ban social media reflects dwindling rights
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A pathway to authoritarianism?: The real problem with geriatric politicians
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Anti-India? Pro-Pakistan? What two recent events in Dhaka say about democracy in Bangladesh
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Why the election noise in Kashmir is a symptom of democratic deep freeze
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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s moral courage and Myanmar’s long to walk to freedom
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‘Moral decoupling’: Why voters support politicians despite their ethical failings
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How Hindutva is reshaping India’s classrooms
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The Dutch are drawing a line – to keep populists out of power. Can other countries do so as well?
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The glaring oversight in the US Congressional report on Bhutan’s long struggle for democracy
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Chandigarh mayor resigns ahead of SC hearing on alleged poll rigging, three AAP councillors join BJP
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‘Murder of democracy, prosecute presiding officer’, says Supreme Court on Chandigarh mayoral polls
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As Indian democracy comes under siege, what can Indian-Americans do?
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Indian democracy was always fragile – but decades of effort to nourish it are being undermined
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How the ancient Greeks practised ‘direct democracy’ – and kept ruthless narcissists out of power
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What happens to democracy when AI aimed at helping a candidate win elections is deployed?
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How ‘Mother of democracy’, ‘Vishwaguru’ rhetoric is a buffer against Western criticism of India
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Kavita Krishnan: The Left must change course – it is speaking the same language that tyrants do
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How to turn a country over to the mob
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The global erosion of democracy has opened up space for China’s authoritarianism to spread
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Tale of two Constitutions: As Chile drafts a pluralistic future, some Indians aim for Hindu rashtra
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India at 75: Championing democracy abroad, hollowing it out at home
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India retains ‘partially free’ status for second year in Freedom House’s 2022 report
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Ex-CJI Venkatachalaiah’s prescription for India: ‘The cure for ills of democracy is more democracy’
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Report lowering India’s status to ‘partly free’ under Modi is ‘misleading’, says Centre
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India loses its status as ‘free’ in Freedom House’s 2021 report
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Why the British developed the idea of impeachment and then abandoned it
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Jay Panda: India’s parliament is paralysed by 19th-century rules