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The Political Fix: Poll results show that BJP has failed to upend the politics of Jammu and Kashmir

Modi's politics of vishwas, the history of Indian dissent and other ideas you may have missed on the Friday Q&A

The Political Fix: In Yediyurappa vs Delhi struggle, a glimpse of BJP’s ‘High Command’ culture

Friday Links + One year after CAA: A Scroll.in series on the impact of the remarkable nation-wide protest movement

The Political Fix: Three ways to understand the massive farmer protests taking on Modi in Delhi

Friday Q&A: Manan Ahmed Asif on how the colonial state altered our past and erased Hindustan

The Political Fix: Why India’s new Parliament building may spark a North-South tug-of-war

Friday Q&A: Kaushik Krishnan on 'V-shaped recoveries' and how lockdown affected Indian households

The Political Fix: What unites protesting farmers and critics of RBI’s corporate banks proposal?

Friday Q&A: Vinay Sitapati on Vajpayee, Advani and the history of Hindu nationalism in India

The Political Fix: Is the Congress gearing up to relaunch Rahul Gandhi – once again?

Friday Q&A: Louise Tillin on a 'defining moment' for the future of Indian federalism

The Political Fix: With the BJP’s success in Bihar, has Modi out-Nitished Nitish Kumar?

The Political Fix: What does 'Goodbye Trump' mean for India – and Modi?

Friday Q&A: Christophe Jaffrelot on what we misunderstand about the Emergency – and how it is relevant in Modi's India

The Political Fix: What explains the anger with Nitish Kumar in Bihar, even as Modi remains popular?

Friday Q&A Special: Romila Thapar on the history of dissent and how it shaped Hinduism and India

The Political Fix: GST to Covid-19 vaccine – what the Centre-state battles tell us about India

Friday Q&A: Rahul Verma on the Bihar polls and common misconceptions about Indian elections

The Political Fix: What would a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris victory mean for India – and Modi?

Friday Q&A: Yamini Aiyar on Modi's centralising tendencies and the impact on accountability

The Political Fix: Will BJP’s ‘insider trading’ in the Bihar elections leave Nitish Kumar stranded?

Friday Links: The silent crackdown sweeping through Delhi in the guise of probing the riots conspiracy

The Political Fix: Five lenses through which the horrific Hathras gangrape-murder is being viewed

Friday Q&A: Declan Walsh on the violence, complexity and 'Nine Lives' of Pakistan

The Political Fix: Will India’s illiberal turn under Modi hurt chances of engaging with the West?

Friday Q&A: Ananth Krishnan on India's China challenge and the need to invest in understanding Beijing

The Political Fix: What you need to know about the chaos in the Rajya Sabha over the farm bills

Friday Q&A: Sabyasachi Kar on his unconventional proposal for India to get out of the low-growth trap

The Political Fix: Without Question Hour, will Parliament’s role in the BJP era shrink even further?

Are India and China going to war? Plus 5 other stories we missed while the Political Fix was away

Will the economic crash end the Indian middle class infatuation with Modi?

The Political Fix: Why Assam’s NRC failed to address the social and economic anxieties it was to resolve for good

The Political Fix: As the India growth story peters out, desperate states turn to nativist quotas

Friday Q&A: Constantino Xavier on how the China threat in South Asia is pushing India to do much more

The Political Fix: Why the allegations about Facebook favouring the BJP are so significant for Indian politics

Friday Q&A: Aparna Pande on the dangers of assuming India will become a great power without working to get there

The Political Fix: Will upcoming compensation battle prompt India to examine GST’s many flaws?

The Political Fix: What will the August 5 Ram temple ceremony mean for the BJP – and India?

Friday Links: A reservation rebellion in the BJP + Pallavi Raghavan on the 'strange intimacy' of early India-Pakistan ties

The Political Fix: Will India have to wait for a Covid-19 vaccine before getting a fiscal stimulus?

Friday Links: Is India undercounting Covid-19 deaths? + Neelanjan Sircar on the 'politics of vishwas'

The Political Fix: Is Sachin Pilot’s rebellion a sign of Congress failure – or Gehlot’s success?

Friday Links: 'Sachin [Pilot] Out, Game is On' + Vivek Kaul on India's beleaguered banking sector

The Political Fix: Why the BJP’s manage-the-headlines approach to politics is inherently dangerous

Friday Links: New Delhi and Beijing step back from the brink + Santosh Mehrotra on India's self-inflicted economic wounds

The Political Fix: Teflon Modi’s unabating popularity and 7 more takeaways from the middle of 2020

Friday Links: What does a TikTok ban actually mean? + Shankkar Aiyar on Indian state capacity

The Political Fix: Can the rural economy pull the rest of India out of its post-lockdown malaise?

The Political Fix | Friday Links: Can India really boycott China? + Tanvi Madan on Indo-US relations post-Galwan

The Political Fix: With 20 Indian soldiers dead, is Modi now taking a realist line with China?

The Political Fix | Friday Links: What you need to know about the first fatal conflict on the India-China border in 4 decades

The Political Fix: Holding political rallies and taking charge of Delhi, is Amit Shah back?

The Political Fix: Why Kejriwal tried to reserve hospitals for Delhi residents, plus Friday links

The Political Fix: With Atmanirbhar Bharat, is Modi bringing ‘Nehruvian protectionism’ back to India?

The Political Fix: 1 year of Modi 2.0, India crosses 200,000 Covid-19 cases and more Friday links

The Political Fix: As India unlocks, how the Covid crisis is playing out in 3 very different states

The Political Fix: India-China standoff, labour law rollbacks and more Friday links

The Political Fix: What has India's stringent Covid-19 lockdown achieved?

The Political Fix: Agriculture's 1991 moment, Covid-19 resources and more Friday links

The Political Fix: Will Modi’s five-tranche economic package lift India out of the lockdown abyss?

The Political Fix: Why are Indian states junking labour laws in the middle of the Covid-19 crisis?

The Political Fix: How will Narendra Modi’s pandemic politics change as India enters Lockdown 3.0?

The Political Fix: Post Covid, will India push back against China – or does it need Beijing’s cash?

The Political Fix part 2: Does India have the money and means to deliver a Basic Income to poor citizens?

The Political Fix part 1: Does India have the money and means to deliver a Basic Income to poor citizens?

The Political Fix: Why India will have a hard time navigating its way out of the Covid-19 lockdown

The Political Fix: Will Covid-19 crisis slow down Modi’s centralising tendencies?

The Political Fix: Here’s what India’s chaotic attempt to lock down 1.3 billion people looks like

The Political Fix: India’s Coronavirus Economic Task Force needs to quickly pull out the big guns

The Political Fix: Coronavirus will put all of India’s state systems to the test

The Political Fix: What does the failure of a major bank tell us about the Indian economy?

The Political Fix: Communal riots in Delhi are now part of Modi’s legacy as Prime Minister

The Political Fix: What will Donald Trump’s big visit to India actually achieve?

The Political Fix: Was Delhi the last of the BJP’s losses in state elections for the next few years?

The Political Fix: Three risky policy moves that lie at the heart of India’s Budget 2020

The Political Fix: India presents a damage-control Budget 2020 after a horrible year for economy

The Political Fix: Will AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal sweep the Delhi elections yet again?

The Political Fix: After a month of Citizenship Act protests in India, what have we learned?

The Political Fix: Will the states vs Centre battle dominate India over the next decade?

The Political Fix: From majoritarianism to the Muslim voice, what 2020 has in store for India