Indian Political Debate

West Bengal’s elections increasingly look less like a straight contest of manifestos and more like a contest over what the election is about. Whoever decides

India’s rupee isn’t falling because the economy is “failing.” In fact, the headline growth story has been robust—GDP grew 8.2% year-on-year in the July–September 2025

Equal opportunity isn’t a “soft” moral add-on to growth; it’s the hard infrastructure of a stable society. When children’s life chances depend mainly on their

The replacement of MGNREGA with the Viksit Bharat—Guarantee for Rozgar and Ajeevika Mission (Gramin) (VB—G RAM G) is more than rebranding. The core right-to-work idea

If you look at India’s economy in 2025 from 30,000 feet, the story reads like a policy-maker’s dream: growth stayed strong even as the global

Evidence from an Inequality Intensity Index and Comparative Political Outcomes Abstract Conventional democratic theory assumes that extreme economic inequality should destabilize democratic institutions and eventually