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Indian voters are rewarding politicians for good economic performance—a new and encouraging sign that Indian democracy is maturing.
Raghuram Rajan, the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, has to decide whether to keep interest rates constant or raise them.
In recent years, sentiments for reviving cross-border connections with Pakistan have intensified on the Indian side of Punjab and have strong bipartisan support.
2014 will be a year of transition in South Asia. National elections in Afghanistan, India, and Bangladesh will affect both regional stability and international security.
In a region where democracy has been uneven, the successful completion of another election in India, especially one in which voter turnout achieved record highs, is cause for celebration.
A comprehensive approach to the Middle East should also allow Delhi to recast the anti-Western framework that has long guided India’s regional policy.
As early as the 1920s, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel showed ambivalent attitudes vis-à-vis the Muslim minority in Gujarat and India at large
To cope with new geopolitical imperatives, India must learn to deal with Asia on its own terms and stop imposing its ideological preferences on the region.
It remains to be seen whether negative voting will influence the quality of politicians in Indian elections.
India has seen the slow and gradual build-up of the state’s capacity. There are no more stroke-of-the-pen reforms left, there are no shortcuts.