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A Retired Bureaucrat’s 2024 Election Takeaways
Amb Satish Chandra, Vice Chairman, VIF Commentary

With the dust of the 2024 election having finally settled and a new National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government having been sworn in it is now appropriate to attempt to tease out some of its key takeaways. For starters, it should definitively pu....

June 10, 2024 Governance and Political Studies , Commentary , India , democracy , Congress , BJP , election , PM Modi , NDA , Opposition
The choice — the repeat of 2014-24 or throwback to 1989-98?
S Gurumurthy, Chairman, VIF Article

Modi is the first and only Prime Minister to place before the people a long term vision for the nation and the world—that of a developed India by 2047. There are four main issues in the ensuing elections. One, a government which will be s....

April 14, 2024 Governance and Political Studies , Article , Congress , modi , Indian democracy , Article 370 , 2047 , INDI Alliance
Vimarsha on Defining Democracy by Dr. A Surya Prakash

In the recent past, several reports have come out questioning the functioning of the Indian democracy. Responding to these reports, the Indian Foreign Ministry said that India had “robust institutions and well established democratic practices”....

March 31, 2021 Vimarsh , Governance and Political Studies , Congress , BJP , governance , India democracy , Political Party
Durand Line: Did India Fail Frontier Gandhi?
RNP Singh

‘You have thrown us to the wolves!’ these words by Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan will continue to haunt the nation for decades to come. In the story of India’s freedom struggle, he was one of the bravest. A martyr. Yet he and his Pakhtun brothers wer....

October 28, 2020 Governance and Political Studies , Congress , Book Published , Gandhi , Durand Line , Abdul Ghaffar Khan , Pakhtun , Frontier Gandhi , Wolf , Freedom , Betrayal
The Twin Crises at America’s Doorstep
Dr. V. Anantha Nageswaran Article

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Round Table at the VIF on Elections 2019 by Dr. A. Surya Prakash, Chairman, Prasar Bharti

During the course of the elections, Dr. A Surya Prakash visited the states of Karnataka, Haryana, Rajasthan, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal to understand how the people were voting. He shared his impression and insight during two round table d....

May 21, 2019 Governance and Political Studies , Interaction , India , UP , Congress , BJP , modi , Election Commission , Prasar Bharti , Chairman , 2019 , Elections 2019 , Bengal
A talk on ‘Netaji's Contribution to the Freedom Moment’ by Dr. Kalyan De

On 10 February 2017, Dr. Kalyan De, a US-based Netaji enthusiast and engineer by profession, delivered a refreshingly insightful talk on Netaji Subash Chandra Bose’s inimitable contribution to India’s freedom struggle. Quoting extensively from th....

March 24, 2018 Historical and Civilisational Studies , Interaction , Congress , Jawaharlal Nehru , Gandhi , Netaji Subash Chandra Bose , India’s freedom movement
Dawn of the Coalition Era in Indian Politics
RNP Singh

Parliamentary and presidential democracies in modern India can function only with the presence of political parties. Constitutionally, India is a quasi-federal structure with a parliamentary form of government. The heterogeneous nature of Indian soci....

January 05, 2018 Governance and Political Studies , Coalition governments , regional politics , Era in Indian Politics , Parliament , democracy , Congress , BJP , modi , Lal Bahadur Shastri , Sardar Patel
भाजपा कैसे जीती... और कांग्रेस कैसे हारी
Rajesh Singh

कांग्रेस के जिन गलियारों में निराशा के जाले और हार की सीलन मजबूत ये मजबूत इरादे वालों को भी उलटे....

November 13, 2017 Governance and Political Studies , India , Congress , BJP , modi , Rahul Gandhi , कांग्रेस का चुनावी रणनीति , जीत का मंत्र
Breaking The Caste Code In Uttar Pradesh
Rajesh Singh

It is election season in Uttar Pradesh. The four major political parties in the fray are seeking to win the people’s affection on the promise of developmental governance. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is promoting Prime Minister Narendra Modi’....

September 27, 2016 Governance and Political Studies , Policies & Perspectives , Congress , BJP , Uttar Pradesh , BSP
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