Whether you admire Nehru, as people my age were compelled to do when we were young, or you dislike him, as is fashionable today, his legacy is alive and breathing in the institutions that he conceived and built.

It will be interesting to see what shifts have been recorded in the last decade and a half, but we will only know this if and when the census is conducted.

In 2025, China has become 'competitive' in all sectors where it was 'behind' in 2015 and is the global leader in half of them.

When after the Covid outbreak passed, growth came to fill in the chasm left by the extensive lockdown, the trumpets were taken off the wall again and hosannas sung to the master’s glory. Now, when again we are back to talk of slowdown

All governments are expected to defend laws, but it is unclear what the stand of this government is, headed by the party that benefited from the movement that led to this legislation.

The government has rejected the fall in several indices as being motivated, biased or based on flawed data.

These creators are independent individuals on social media who cannot be licensed or regulated in the way that news channels can. That is why the government is moving to gain control over them.

BJP's voters assume there is some grand strategy or at least some basic philosophy behind 'Modinomics' and that this will show in the budget. Alas, this is not so.

As the 240-seater prime minister attempts to moderate his image of hardline hero, he has made room for others to elbow in, and that is what is happening. And that is what will continue to happen from inside the BJP.

India is an unusual nation where propagation of religion is both a fundamental right and a criminal offence.

Despite the pro-establishment media largely dependent on the revenue from the government, the revenues of India's six listed news media companies have not risen in the last decade.

The shift from collective Cabinet responsibility to one individual has ended and the shift back has begun.

The largest component of the ideology, what is called Hindutva, is quite vague. What does it mean and what is it intended to achieve?

India has been repeatedly told of concerns about the lack of diversity in the NHRC, and asked to have a “pluralistic balance in its composition and staff” by ensuring the representation of a diverse Indian society including, but not limited to religious or ethnic minorities.

Not a single one of the politicians in jail is a convict. They are merely accused by the BJP that they have done something wrong.

As we elect MPs for the next five years, let us look at many of the laws and amendments that we have been given in the previous decade.

Mani Shankar Aiyar's book on the former prime minister provides something of a history of that period. However, the author should have included a section on the massacre of Sikhs in 1984.

The Prime Minister of India fled the field when his people needed the government most.

Mobs can now deny Muslims prayer spaces granted to them by the state, and the state will withdraw its permission, among other discriminatory incidents. Because this mindset has been made acceptable, it will continue to spread.

It shows the utter contempt that the Central government has for the Opposition and for democracy, the disregard it has for the judiciary and the extent to which it can go to secure its own interests over those of the country.