Without urgent normative and structural reforms in our operational methodologies, we will all be complicit in hammering the final nail.

The BJP has successfully leveraged Ram Mandir to effect a fundamental restructuring of Hinduism, which has no ecclesiastical order, absolutist establishment, governing organisation, or binding holy book. All of this could change.

Even if the BJP stitches together a coalition government, its allies will not just share an uneasy relationship with the prime minister, but they will also extract expensive concessions.

Those who believe in the promise of India's constitution should leave the nuts and bolts of electioneering to the professionals. It is worth reflecting on what can be collectively done in the national interest, rather than frittering away time in finger-pointing.  

There is an unstated consensus that the BJP’s Kamandal politics is a necessary evil to reverse Mandal politics. It perpetuated caste hegemonies and stymied numerous progressive policy measures. This is why the INDIA bloc’s championing of the caste census offers a rare window to unleash India’s third democratic upsurge.

To restore a sense of dignity and seriousness to parliament, the prime minister must take the lead to remake the political compact between the executive and the legislature. If he does not do that, history will not be kind to him.

What progressives really need to do is spearhead political projects of our own, and thereby disrupt the status quo.

The originality and unrelenting malice displayed by BJP is making it increasingly apparent that it is unwilling to adhere to constitutional principles, let alone the natural laws of humankind.

Democratic nations today reek of fear. Fear of the other, fear of diversity, fear of the government, and most of all, fear of tomorrow.

The media is meant to report the truth, but the structure and vested interests of the Indian press have stopped that from happening.

A year after Narendra Modi's Skill India initiative was introduced, the country remains far from capitalising on its demographic dividend.

As a society, we should be ashamed that year after year, farmers beg for a decent livelihood and are forced to take their lives.

The Modi government's ideal for India is built at the cost of our collective conscience, furthering oppressing the already marginalised.

To ensure the promise of India is accorded to all her people, it is imperative to pay heed to Gandhi’s insistence on a socio-political revolution to affect an organic transformation in India’s social consciousness and to Ambedkar’s faith in the State as a means to guarantee not only equality of opportunity but also of outcome.