Sitemap - 2021 - The Political Fix

The (final) Political Fix: Why you cannot understand Indian politics without examining the media

The Political Fix: Why India needs to be wary of Covid triumphalism – even after 1 billion vaccines

Interview: Pranay Kotasthane makes the case for the Quad to take on China via semiconductors

The Political Fix: Does Modi have a plan to acknowledge – and address – border tensions with China?

Interview: Ambika Vishwanath on what it would mean for India to have a ‘feminist foreign policy’

The Political Fix: Is the sycophantic Modi propaganda push a sign of weakness or strength?

The Political Fix: AAP and Mamata Banerjee are looking to take slices out of the Congress pie

Interview: Josy Joseph on how the government’s abuse of security agencies could ‘destroy India’

The Political Fix: Will Quad membership and a ‘minilateral web’ protect India against China?

Interview: Garima Mohan on why AUKUS should only sharpen Europe’s focus on the Indo-Pacific

The Political Fix: Why Congress replacing Amarinder Singh is both like and unlike BJP’s CM shuffling

Interview: Ashwini Deshpande on the need for Indian economists to grapple with discrimination

The Political Fix: Is Modi's High Command culture turning some BJP CMs into glorified bureaucrats?

Interview: Jessica Namakkal on what Auroville tells us about the ‘end of colonialism and empire’

The Political Fix: The mirage of 20% GDP growth and India’s ‘unaddressed demand crisis’

The Political Fix: The BJP relies heavily on OBC votes. Will it bite the caste census bullet?

Interview: Nikhar Gaikwad and Gareth Nellis on the political exclusion of migrants in India

The Political Fix: What the Taliban’s sudden success means for India – and Indian politics

The Political Fix: India enters its 75th year with a climate warning – and a battle over 'net zero'

Interview: Vijay Gokhale on why India should not assume China’s success is due to lack of democracy

The Political Fix: What does the BJP’s brazen refusal to discuss Pegasus tell us about Parliament?

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The Political Fix: What will happen to the North East if Himanta tries to become Assam’s Adityanath?

Interview: Ian Sanjay Patel on Britain’s decades-long effort to keep its own non-white citizens out

The Political Fix: Pegasus, electoral bonds and tax raids offer a clearer view why BJP is dominant

Q&A: Gilles Verniers on the pressing need to study Indian politics between elections

The Political Fix: What can Prashant Kishor bring to the Congress – or the anti-Modi Opposition?

Q&A: Radhika Singha on the need to expand our understanding of India’s role in World War I

The Political Fix: Why is India still pursuing ‘tax terrorism’ cases against Cairn and Vodafone?

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The Political Fix: Why did Modi sit down with Kashmiri leaders after jailing them for months?

The Political Fix: What will be the political impact of some BJP leaders calling for a partition of West Bengal?

The Political Fix: Do BJP's organisational woes mimic what Indira Gandhi's excess centralisation did to the Congress?

The Political Fix: Will pressure from the Supreme Court and states prompt a Modi U-turn on vaccines?

Q&A: Amit Basole on the pandemic’s devastating impact and the need for a fiscal response now

The Political Fix: Does anyone trust Modi’s government to genuinely place checks on Big Tech?

Interview: Sumitra Badrinathan on tackling fake news and the effects of BJP’s ‘supply advantage’

The Political Fix: Post-election chaos in Bengal underlines the fragile state of Indian democracy

Saturday Q&A: Avinash Paliwal on the challenges posed to India by the Taliban and Myanmar’s military coup

The Political Fix: As brutal Covid-19 second wave moves into rural India, Modi deploys spin doctors

Saturday Q&A: India’s vaccine Plan A was the pandemic disappearing... Its new plan makes no sense’

The Political Fix: Modi failed the biggest test of his tenure. Will a Supreme Court panel now help?

The Political Fix: Is the Modi government battling the virus – or fighting narrative wars?

The Political Fix: Homegrown Covid-19 failures force India to seek the help of the world – and get a belated Biden response

Saturday links, plus what you need to know about India’s baffling new vaccine policy

The Political Fix: Why do we know so little about the calculations behind India's vaccine rollout?

Saturday Q&A: Darshana Baruah on the Indian Ocean and the need for Delhi to have a ‘maritime mentality’

The Political Fix: Why did India drop anti-corruption clauses in the Rafale Deal?

Election Day Q&A: AS Panneerselvan on Tamil politics and the disadvantages faced by regional parties

The Political Fix: After starting to thaw, India-Pakistan ties run into an Imran Khan U-turn

The Political Fix: After talk of herd immunity, what explains India’s severe Covid-19 second wave?

Saturday Q&A: Sanjib Baruah on Assam elections, identity politics and the ‘cash-transfer state’

The Political Fix: What does India's democratic backsliding mean for the Quad?

The Political Fix: What makes a successful BJP chief minister in the Modi-Shah era?

Friday Links: Why the low turnout at Modi's Kolkata rally doesn't matter for the BJP, plus more election stories

The Political Fix: BJP's attempts to control speech are another reminder of India's uneven political playing field

The Political Fix: What does the 'Narendra Modi Cricket stadium' tell us about his politics?

Friday Links: Catching up on India-China, India-Pakistan... and India-Rihanna

The Political Fix: What explains Modi government’s volatile authoritarianism, swinging from paranoia to paralysis?

The Political Fix: ‘Joy Bangla’ vs ‘Jai Shri Ram’ - Will Mamata’s bid to counter Hindutva with Bengali identity work?

The Political Fix: How Modi’s attempt to crush the farmers’ protest seems to have backfired

The Political Fix: What BJP’s rejected offer to suspend farm laws tells us about Modi’s tactics

Friday Q&A: Yashaswini Chandra on what the horse tells us about India's past

The Political Fix: ‘Judicial barbarism’ and the farmers’ rejection of the SC-appointed committee

Friday Q&A: Alice Evans on why India's big feminist demand should be labour-intensive growth

The Political Fix: Why is BJP treating the Supreme Court like a tie-breaker for the farmers protest?

Friday Q&A: What does everyone keep getting wrong about India (and China and Pakistan)?

The Political Fix: ‘Godi Media’, China, the census and other things to pay attention to in 2021