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Cockroaches Crawl Over Decaying Parties in Modi’s Parallel Universe
This weekend witnessed a cockroach infestation like never before in history. Hundreds of people braved New Delhi’s sweltering heat to gather at a protest site in the Indian capital donning cockroach masks on Saturday in the first physical demonstration of a nascent Gen Z movement called the “Cockroach Janta Party” that has already gained millions of followers…
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Breaking Point Bengal: An Election Heralds India’s Managed Democracy
This report asserts that the results of the provincial elections in India in April 2026 indicate that India’s backsliding has hit a new low. An election custom-made for Modi’s triumph marks the country’s transition to a Russia-style hybrid regime where elections exist to lend legitimacy to hegemonic power through procedural ritual. India blazed a trail…
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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #10
In this edition of the Democracy Lighthouse Digest, Debasish Roy Chowdhury examines the emergence of transnational far-right alliances and discusses what this means for…..
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Democracy and the Spaces We Can No Longer Shape
Democracy does not live only in constitutions, elections and courts. It also lives in the places where people meet, wait, argue, rest, organise and remain without permission. When those spaces become harder to shape, harder to inhabit, or harder to use without paying, democracy weakens long before anyone announces its decline. Much of the debate about…
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Democracy Lighthouse Digest #9 (MENA Special)
Introducing a Toda Peace Institute series “An Eye on Arab Democratisation.” Since this series was prepared, the war launched by the U.S. and Israel has added a new layer of uncertainty across the region. While the chapters do not address these recent developments, the deeper dynamics they analyse – state fragility, constrained political space, regional…
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