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Empty Metros

India’s metro rail expansion is often presented as a symbol of arrival ~ a visual shorthand for modernity, efficiency, and global ambition.

Foreign Funding Oversight Bill to tighten NGO regulations introduced in Lok Sabha

Hollow numbers

India is once again debating numbers ~ how many Members of Parliament it should have, how many seats each state deserves, and whether expanding legislatures will improve democracy.

Bengal’s Missing Debate

The electoral sky over battleground Bengal is thick with the dust raised by the controversy surrounding the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, occasionally punctuated by politics of cultural belonging, with candidates campaigning with fish in hand to prove their Bengali identity.