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By giving Modi’s BJP a landslide victory, the Indian electorate has dealt its country a blow that might take a long time to recover from. The outcome of the polls has virtually buried India’s ideal of secularism and tightened the hold of crooks and the vulgar rich over the house of the people.

A People’s Constitution: Book Launch and Panel Discussion of Rohit De’s A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic (Princeton, 2018) organized by Penguin India. Panelists: Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Nivedita Menon, Nandini Sundar and Gautam Bhatia on Jan 8, 2018

Full video recording of what was perhaps Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s last significant interview to American TV Host Arnold Michaelis before his death. From book by HY Sharada Prasad we are told the interview a few weeks before his death. Another book by Chandrika Prasad provides a date of 18th May 1964 when the interview was aired in New York, this is barely a few days before the death of Pandit Nehru on 27th May 1964.

Links to select commentary and data on the results of 2019 general elections in India

Frenzied use of communal card signals the weakening of democracy.