May 16, 2022 The Wire
During an interview with 'The Wire Talks', Ashutosh Varshney comments, "It’s the electoral victory of the BJP which is causing this constitutional difficulty and it will might soon become a constitutional crisis."
May 5, 2022 The Wire Podcast
Ashutosh Varshney on The Wire podcast, “I have studied communal riots of the 1990s, but this current violence in India is very different.”
March 12, 2022 Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney discusses BJP's massive victory in four state elections, including UP, the biggest and most vital, he argues. Varshney asks whether India's electoral democracy, vibrant and free, is coming increasingly in conflict with India's Constitution.
February 3, 2022 Christian Science Monitor
Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary South Asia Ashutosh Varshney offered commentary on Hindu nationalism and second-class citizens in India.
December 6, 2021 Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney penned this article featuring an interview with Salman Rushdie during a recent OP Jindal seminar at the Center for Contemporary South Asia.
November 22, 2021 The Guardian
Ashutosh Varshney provided commentary in this article on Prime Minister Modi's repeal of farm laws in India that have prompted a year of unrest.
November 8, 2021 News from Brown
This article reflects on the panel discussion and Q&A with Salman Rushdie hosted by the Center for Contemporary South Asia at Watson.
October 19, 2021 Indian Express
In this piece, Ashutosh Varshney makes a comparitive analysis between the historical American period known as the Jim Crow South and the current state of Hindu nationalism.
September 8, 2021 TIME
Ashutosh Varshney offered commentary in this article on the future of BJP’s immigration enforcement in India.
August 30, 2021 Washington Post
Ashutosh Varshney provided commentary in this article on the social fear of Muslims overtaking Hindus in India.
July 26, 2021 Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney penned this column arguing that a definition centered on being Hindu and Hindi-speaking threatens to override a superordinate civic identity underlined by the Constitution.
July 6, 2021
Ashutosh Varshney recently co-authored, "Populism and Hindu Nationalism in India" which presents findings from the first-ever survey, conducted in 12 states, of populist attitudes in India.
June 24, 2021 Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney co-authored this piece examining whether the electorate would hold the BJP responsible for the suffering during the pandemic.
June 14, 2021 CNN
Ashutosh Varshney provided commentary on India's public opinion of Modi in the wake of a COVID-19 crisis: "A very large part of the base is hugely disenchanted because they've lost their loved ones. They've lost their siblings, their parents, their children."
June 4, 2021 Modern Ghana
Ashutosh Varshney in Modern Ghana, "This is too immense a period of suffering and it will be too hard to convince people that this was just down to 'divine will' or individual failures to wear a mask."
June 3, 2021 Money Control
Ashutosh Varshney provides commentary in this article on welcoming Senior Fellow Arvind Subramanian to Watson.
May 17, 2021 The Guardian
Ashutosh Varshney in the Guardian, "Modi’s image will depend on how the mass suffering is interpreted, and whether he can successfully deploy his skills at narrative shifting, but I think he will have to pay a price."
May 13, 2021 Financial Times
Ashutosh Varshney provided commentary in this article.
May 6, 2021 Indian Express
In this article, Ashutosh Varshney compares the current Modi regime to Mao's China.
March 23, 2021 Dawn
This column references commentary made in 2014 by Ashutosh Varshney.