The daughter of Indian immigrants is challenging one of New York’s most powerful Democrats. In Colorado, an Indian-American ...

The BJP directly won only one of India’s four 2026 state elections, yet a wider political reorganisation may have brought its alliance closer to a two-thirds majority in the Lok Sabha ...

New Delhi, India – It was the month of Ramadan in 1974, and the northern city of Lucknow, a hub of India’s Shia community, was on the boil. Hemwati Nandan Bahuguna, a stalwart of India’s then-ruling ...

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 ...

India’s recent state elections complicate claims that the BJP is consolidating a uniform national political order, with regional identities and political traditions continuing to shape electoral ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Credit: Sumita Roy Dutta, Wikimedia Commons, CC-BY-SA-4.0. In a letter addressed to “young friends,” Dharmendra Pradhan resigned as India’s education minister on July 25 after taking “moral ...

NEW DELHI, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Indian political parties are increasingly targeting women voters with fiscally draining handouts of cash around the time of elections to counter wider worries about ...

When India’s top court banned a controversial scheme in February 2024 that allowed individuals and corporates to make anonymous donations to political parties through opaque electoral bonds, many ...

Indian politics has acquired an unusual mascot: the cockroach. A satirical collective that takes inspiration from the insect – stubborn, reviled and considered indestructible – has attracted millions ...