Rahul Gandhi is the descendant of three prime ministers. A surge of protests could give him a springboard to take on the ...

Indian politics has never been short of theatrics. The recent INDIA bloc protest march to the Supreme Court against Chief ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi performing Bhoomi Pujan (ground-breaking ceremony) of the Ram temple in Ayodhya, India, Aug. 5, 2020. Credit: Wikimedia Commons/Press Information Bureau-Prime Minister’s ...

India, the world’s largest democracy, faces the monumental task of conducting elections for a staggering electorate of over 1 billion voters. To put this into perspective, India’s voter base is almost ...

On a recent Sunday afternoon, Vineeta Gupta hosted 20 Indian American women at her home in Silver Spring, Maryland. Fueled by chana masala, naan and rice pudding, they wrote hundreds of postcards in ...

In a letter addressed to “young friends,” Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as India’s education minister on July 25 after taking “moral responsibility” for the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) ...

Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir – Shakeela remembers being upbeat and hopeful that evening. As officials in Indian-administered Kashmir counted votes cast in the regional assembly election in ...

Bengaluru, India – In the sultry August heat of 2007, India’s government under Prime Minister Manmohan Singh was sweating over the future of negotiations with the United States over a landmark nuclear ...

One of the enduring ironies of the Indian political system is that political parties, which are considered the principal stakeholders of electoral democracy, do not find a mention in the Constitution, ...

As a high-achieving group with an iron-clad will set on actualizing the American dream, it was only a matter of time before Indian Americans became politically active en masse. There’s Bobby Jindal, ...