The Unsaid Factors Behind the Belief That Modi Can Do No Wrong

There are three elements of today’s political culture that possibly explain “the phenomenon of ‘Modi can do no wrong’”. Professor Suhas Palshikar, one of the leading political scientists in the country, recently wrote about “nine failures and blemishes” of the current government at the Centre and said that these do not seem to have brought any discredit to […]

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How Some States are Subverting the Rule of Law to Drop Criminal Cases Against Politicians

The spate of withdrawal of pending criminal cases against politicians in UP, Rajasthan, MP and Kerala in recent months points at the overpowering stranglehold of the political establishment on all the organs of governance. “No legislature in India, including its parliament and all the state assemblies, has any member with a criminal case pending against […]

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