Debasish Roy Chowdhury is a Hong Kong-based Indian journalist and a co-author of “To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism.” Prime Minister Narendra Modi stood last month atop India ...

Last month, Freedom House downgraded India’s status from “free” to “partly free,” for the first time since 1997, which places it alongside, among others, Ecuador, Albania and Malawi.

Rhetoric about democracy papered over policies advanced by Narendra Modi and his party that discriminate against India’s Muslims and limit freedom of speech and the press. June 24, 2023 ...

As India heads to the polls this week, in what will be the biggest democratic election the world has ever witnessed, questions on what democracy means in India are more poignant than ever before.

In India, the world's largest democracy, Prime Minister Narendra Modi recently won a third term in office. While he is clearly popular, during his time in power there has also been brutal ...

But both India’s dream of a glorious international status and the U.S. goal to gain a major partner in its struggle against China and authoritarianism depend on India remaining a democracy.

India’s political system has shifted from limited democracy to party democracy and finally to plebiscitary democracy, a trend that reached its epitome with Modi.

Is there a sense that India’s democracy, since Modi didn’t do a power grab, has a bit of hope? TUDOR Absolutely there is. I think there’s a big sense in India that something has changed.

In May 2014, in what looked like a scene from a movie, a van pulled in front of G.N. Saibaba’s car. The police, in plain clothes, dragged him out, then assaulted, blindfolded, and kidnapped the ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks with the media in New Delhi on Jan. 31. (Adnan Abidi/Reuters) Not long ago, a 12th-grade political science textbook in India informed students about the ...