by Ananya Kaushal | Apr 30, 2025 | Tulane University
Image of India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaking at a BJP rally. The lotus symbol, central to the BJP’s identity, is prominently displayed on the podium. I remember sitting on the couch with my dad during the 2014 Indian election results. The screen...
by Manas Kathir | Apr 18, 2025 | Boston University
Members of the Congress Party have been charged with money laundering in connection to the National Herald case. Rahul and Sonia Gandhi, high-status figures of the Congress Party in India, are being charged with money laundering that is related to the National Herald...
by Sean McGinley | May 8, 2024 | Ursinus College
On April 19, 2024, citizens of India, the world’s largest democracy, will start to participate in the Lok Sabha elections. The Lok Sabha is the lower of the two houses that make up India’s parliamentary system. Whoever wins a majority of the Lok Sabha’s 543 seats...
by Anna Walsh | Nov 24, 2022 | Boston University
In 1947 India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke of freedom and democracy, marking the transition away from English colonialism. Three years later India’s constitution was created. India has from then on been a longstanding democracy whose free...
by Ozlem Ozturk | Feb 5, 2021 | Koç University
INDIA’S DEMOCRATIC BACKGROUND India’s experience with democracy dates back to 1947 when it gained independence from British colonial rule.[1]It declared itself a democratic state by adopting its constitution in 1950. Since independence, India had an almost...
