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The impact of tighter fiscal and monetary policy on inflation in India is now visible in recent price data. Inflation, measured both by the wholesale price index and by the consumer price index, has come down.
India’s decision to abstain on a resolution against Sri Lanka at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva last week was unexpected.
The upcoming election in Afghanistan marks neither the end of a long post-Taliban transition nor a crucial turning point for the troubled country.
If anticorruption fighter Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party could force Indian officials to mend their ways, the country would be making real progress toward what it claims to be.
If the middle class wants Modi, a super-CEO, at the helm of India, it is because it does not idealize parliamentary democracy as much as it used to, compared to a more managerial decision-making process.
Political parties in India, virtually across the spectrum, have a demonstrated preference for perpetuating political dynasties.
The Khobragade episode was the straw that broke the camel’s back, but it was not the precipitant that unraveled the U.S.-India relationship.
Mutual indifference has long characterized relations between India and Australia, but the two countries’ interests are increasingly converging.
For voters across India, economic growth and corruption unambiguously dominate all other concerns, and inflation follows closely behind.
The hundreds of millions of voters whose collective actions will determine the course of India’s 16th general elections represent an electorate that is changing in many complex ways.