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Shock election results hit governing parties globally

‘A kind of electoral long Covid’ has left its mark on countries around the world that went to the polls

The conflict between India and Pakistan goes back to Partition in 1947. Conflict has flared up regularly in Kashmir since then including in 2019 (above) and now in 2025. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

Kashmir’s ‘Black Day’ a reminder that the freedom struggle continues

The people of Kashmir and Palestine have suffered oppression for many decades, both starting with the British and then by India and Israel, respectively

Workers remove posters of Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar after the model court of conduct was enforced following the announcement of the schedule of Lok Sabha elections on March 16, 2024 in Patna, India. (Photo by Santosh Kumar/Hindustan Times via Getty Images)

What is wrong with India’s opposition?

With general elections only weeks away, opposition parties seem weak and demoralised

Yogi Adityanath, (Narayan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Turbulent priest: India’s anti-Muslim firebrand and possible future PM

Yogi Adityanath has stirred controversy since his surprise appointment in 2017 as chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India home to over 200 million people

By threatening students and academics, the Indian government seeks to create a compliant nation. But it is also a push towards disaster. (Punit PARANJPE / AFP)

The world must act to stop India’s impending genocide

Democratic countries that are committed to human rights must take decisive action to pressure India to quell its abuses and protect minority communities.

Former president Jacob Zuma and Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu Lindiwe Sisulu during the ANC National General Council on October 11, 2015 at Gallagher Convention Centre in Midrand. (Photo by Gallo Images / Thapelo Maphakela)

Radical economic transformation ‘bullshit’ won’t change lives of poor

Lindiwe Sisulu and other power and prosperity seekers in the ANC had the authority to improve the lives of ‘the people’, but didn’t

Going viral: The tremors of the coronavirus pandemic will hit India’s economy, which is shot through with fault lines that have deepened since it began to liberalise its economy in the early 1990s. People in Mumbai line up outside a store to buy groceries following the announcement of a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)

Surviving Covid-19 — and Modi

A religious and nationalist agenda has replaced the promise of development and left India ill-equipped to manage the pandemic

Going viral: The tremors of the coronavirus pandemic will hit India’s economy, which is shot through with fault lines that have deepened since it began to liberalise its economy in the early 1990s. People in Mumbai line up outside a store to buy groceries following the announcement of a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)

Surviving Covid-19 – and Modi

A religious and nationalist agenda has replaced the promise of development and left India ill-equipped to manage the pandemic

The ‘Enemy’: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, with the help of his henchman, the president of the Bharatiya Janata Party and Home Affairs Minister Amit Shah, has pushed through the Citizenship Amendment Act that discriminates against Muslims.  (Kevin Frayer/Getty Images)

Democracy and charisma: A dangerous liaison

In India and the Philippines, strongmen have consolidated immense power through democratic means. How do we explain this?

By threatening students and academics, the Indian government seeks to create a compliant nation. But it is also a push towards disaster. (Punit PARANJPE / AFP)

Modi attacks universities

By threatening students and academics, the Indian government seeks to create a compliant nation. But it is also a push towards disaster

Nationalist fervour: Activists from the Hindu Bajrang Dal Party , the youth wing of the Vishva Hindu Parishad, at a procession marking the anniversary of the demolition of the Babri Masjid on December 6 1992. (Narinder Nanu/AFP)

The onward march of Hindu nationalism

A recent court verdict over a disputed religious site gives a legal green light to Modi’s majoritarianism

The conflict between India and Pakistan goes back to Partition in 1947. Conflict has flared up regularly in Kashmir since then including in 2019 (above) and now in 2025. Photo: Daniel Berehulak/Getty Images

Kashmir: Modi’s threat to India’s democracy

The revocation of the contested territory’s special status marks a dangerous Hindu-nationalist shift

Under Modi’s first period as prime minister, coercion against dissidents, hate speech, and violence against vulnerable minority groups escalated.(John McCann/M&G)

Modi victory secures illiberal, majority rule

The Indian leader’s party is backed by a Hindu nationalist movement and dominates Parliament

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi of the right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party

India’s Modi on course for big election win

After four hours of counting the 600 million votes cast, Election Commission data showed Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party clearly in the lead

India opposition leader attacks party top brass

A senior leader of India’s main opposition Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has called for a overhaul of the party leadership.

Independents, new parties shake up Indian election

Walking the crowded back streets of Mumbai, observing disputes over tap water and choked drains and asking people for their votes is a new role for Me

India leaders cower from ‘shoe-cide’ attacks

India’s politicians contesting in the general election, fearful of shoes hurled at them by disgruntled voters, have asked for more security.

India announces staggered election

India will hold general elections next month, officials said on Monday, kick-starting a frenetic campaign for the 700-million votes up for grabs.

Screams, silence as families collect bodies in Jaipur

A shock of thick black hair was all that peeped out from under a white sheet that covered a small body Wednesday at a morgue in Jaipur after serial bomb blasts killed about 80…

Hindu nationalists ‘win’ Gujarat poll

Controversial Hindu nationalist party leader Narendra Modi swept back to power in India’s religiously divided Gujarat state on Sunday in what was called a national victory over…