'A form of government in which absolute power is concentrated in an individual or a small clique’ (photo: PTI)

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New India: From flawed democracy to dictatorship?

RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat (photo: @RSSorg/X)

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The most 'Bharatiya' of them all: 100 years of RSS

India has become a surveillance state under Narendra Modi (pictured) and Amit Shah, says author Christophe Jaffrelot (photo: PTI)

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'Gujarat model not about vikas but majoritarianism, politicisation, surveillance'

Representative image (photo: Pinterest/Benjamin Johnson)

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Akbar and Sita: The name of the game

The government's Economic Survey 2016 put the average farm income in 17 states at just Rs 20,000 per annum (photo: PTI)

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What we don't know about minimum support price

A protest led by Kerala CM Pinarayi Vijayan in Delhi against inadequate tax devolution to southern states

Opinion

The pitfalls of coercive federalism

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani (photo: Prakash Singh/Getty Images)

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The real reason Qatar freed our Navy veterans

A sample electoral bond (photo: National Herald archives)

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Herald View: Why the electoral bonds judgement is too little, too late

A smile that conceals? PM Narendra Modi (right) and home minister Amit Shah (photo: PTI)

Opinion

370 seats and other myths: Why is the BJP so sure of an election landslide?

Uddhav Thackeray and Sharad Pawar (second and third from left) at Manohar Joshi's funeral (photo: PTI)

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Manohar Joshi was clever. Was he wise?

Stonewalling all the evidence that the EVS needs reformatting, the ECI is running an awareness campaign to show all is well

Opinion

Why the trust deficit in the EVM

Women are often found overcrowded in stereotyped, low-productivity jobs

Opinion

Women's empowerment: slogans versus reality

Pakistan elections

Opinion

Pak Army shows its muscle again