The current officially-sanctioned Indian portrayal of a besieged Hindu minority seeking protection against Khalistani violence in Canada is closely tied to Hindu nationalist myth-making.

A political discourse centred around Vishwaguru is deeply scarring for democracy. Not only does it hide the democratic backsliding in the world’s largest democracy, but also deflects attention from the fundamental problems in the country.

The propaganda and whataboutery being used to try and discredit the BBC documentary on Narendra Modi rest on shaky ground.

In today's globalised world, every nation's human rights record is open to scrutiny.

While countries around the world have criminalised hate speech, in India it is being spewed by elected officials.

The World Inequality Report 2022 has shed light on starkly growing inequalities in India. But, under the present regime, there has been a subversion of discourse required to address these yawning material and social chasms.

The Christian community's support of allegations of "love jihad" and "narcotics jihad" demonstrate two things: a willingness to participate in Hindutva discourses and the impact of global Islamophobic narratives.

In our current discourse of religious nationalism, the entire Muslim community has to be demonised for every malady that afflicts India, including COVID-19.

The projection that the cases of coronavirus in India is low because of the Modi government's efforts is extraordinarily insensitive as well as smug.

Six years of relentless hate-mongering against Muslims is seen to be of no consequence in creating an absolutely inflammable social sphere.

It is necessary to critically analyse the secularist critiques of AAP's victory.

Vigilante behaviour and a total disregard for the constitution or the laws are apparently fine as long as they are backed by majoritarian will.

The fallacy of BJP justifying every act of murder of democracy by Congress' terrible record in the past while indulging in one corrupt practice after the other itself.

By spreading incendiary and communal propaganda, the Meghalaya governor is expressing the ruling party's majoritarian agenda.

In the run up to the 2019 elections, the media failed to question either the government or the prime minister.

The personality cult manufactured around Modi as the sole figurehead stands in stark contrast to the aspirations and demands of over a billion Indians.

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently proved yet again, the BJP masquerades as a national party when it is really only a party of Hindus.

I carry an Indian passport because being an Indian citizen, for me, is a political project, undertaken by one of the largest and most culturally diverse populations in the world. It is the most audacious democratic experiment, and it is yet to be fulfilled completely.

The binary between an unwise and ignorant Rahul Gandhi versus a wise and erudite Narendra Modi is the result of the most gigantic PR exercise that democratic India has seen.