Policy Brief and Reports
August 13, 2025
Is Trump Adding to the Backsliding of the ‘World’s Biggest Democracy’?
This report examines the consequences for India of a second Trump presidential term. With his steep tariffs and cheap insults, Trump has eroded a decades-old Indian public consensus of a pro-America policy and revived old…
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September 26, 2025
Slumdogs and the Millionaire: What a Project to Transform Mumbai Says About India’s Democracy
This report investigates why a mega slum redevelopment executed by Narendra Modi’s key business ally has triggered political opposition and charges of opacity, arbitrariness, and cronyism. The development threatens to uproot people from the city…
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November 26, 2025
Party Like Mamdani
This report discusses the important lessons that the New York mayor-elect’s campaign masterclass has for India’s flailing democracy, particularly its ineffectual opposition parties that have failed to mount any meaningful pushback against Modi’s monopoly over…
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January 27, 2026
Modi’s Monopolists: Labour and Capital in a Broken Democracy
This report examines the case of India, where the balance between labour and capital has moved decisively against labour, breaking the back of one of the most potent forces of democratisation. Countries where workers’ unions…
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April 14, 2026
A White Supremacist’s Passage to Modi’s India
This report examines transnational far-right alliances which are exacerbating existing challenges to democracy by creating a networked infrastructure that amplifies extremist ideologies, creates replicable authoritarian playbooks, and normalizes democratic erosion and hateful rhetoric. The report…
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May 20, 2026
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…
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