Placing personality at the centre of politics is not new in India. Supporters of Indira Gandhi, an autocratic prime minister, ...

The Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, known as the R.S.S., has survived bans and vilification to emerge as the force reshaping ...

Indian politics 2026 is set to be a transformative year, defined by the extensive Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of ...

The challenge for India is no longer how to ensure Bangladesh’s stability, but how to engage a Bangladesh that is politically ...

The far-right group known as the R.S.S., whose members include Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has spent a century trying to ...

NEW DELHI — Mahendra Kumar Jalan was an Indian millionaire with a diversified portfolio of food-processing plants, dairy farms and commercial real estate. As he faced scrutiny from the Indian ...

Zohran Mamdani and Vivek Ramaswamy took over Indian-American political debates this year. But they weren't the only ones of ...

Sharif Osman Bin Hadi, a figure from the July Uprising, was allegedly shot by an Awami League activist, who has reportedly ...

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On a stifling April afternoon in Ajmer, in the Indian state of Rajasthan, local politician Shakti Singh Rathore sat down in front of a greenscreen to shoot a short video. He looked nervous. It was his ...

Bangladesh's ties with India have been shaped largely by two leaders - Sheikh Hasina and Khaleda Zia. While Hasina anchored ...

For nearly a century, Bollywood has held a mirror to Indian society, the plotlines of the world’s most prolific movie industry reflecting the changing tides of a vast, developing nation. India’s ...