August 13, 2018 The Indian Express
In a conversation with Professor Ashutosh Varshney, author Walter Andersen speaks of the changing nature of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, how it was influenced by its different sarsangchalaks and the challenges that lie ahead of the organisation.
July 30, 2018 LiveMint
In an article on the world's fastest-growing major economy, Professor Ashutosh Varshney has drawn a striking analogy between contemporary India and the United States in the late 19th century, a time similarly characterized by a heady cocktail of growth, inequality and corruption.
July 21, 2018 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney discusses James Crabtree's book The Billionaire Raj and how India is living out the same "gilded age" as America did in the 1800s.
July 12, 2018 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "A true meritocracy would place equally meritorious students from rural or urban settings, richer or poorer provinces, on an equal footing...China modifies the principle in the opposite direction. Its quota system gives preference to the privileged."
July 9, 2018 Deccan Chronicle
In an article on India's capital, Ashutosh Varshney, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, calls the country an improbable democracy -- poor, impossibly heterogeneous and multicultural, and heavily reliant on its colonial history.
June 4, 2018 972 Magazine
Professor Ashutosh Varshney compares his studies of villages in the Gujarat state of India, where Muslims and Hindus coexist more harmoniously than in other parts of the country, to that of Galilee, where Jews and Arabs interact daily, primarly economically.
May 1, 2018 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney recently sat down with Harvard University's Roderick MacFarquhar to discuss Chinese President Xi Jinping's Wuhan summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
April 23, 2018 CNN
Comments by Professor Ashutosh Varshney were mentioned in a segment on the growing religious divide in India, on CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria.
March 30, 2018 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "Liberals are opposed to Hindu nationalism because it is a form of ethnic nationalism; it is not civic nationalism."
February 14, 2018 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "Modi is right to say that Nehru alone did not produce India’s democracy. In the Constituent Assembly, there was no great resistance to the idea of universal franchise."
January 8, 2018 The New York Times
Professor Ashutosh Varshney comments on India's economic woes and Prime Minister Nardenra Modi. "If economic manoeuvrability is limited, then the communal card, the Hindu-Muslim card, is a massive political temptation."
December 26, 2017 The Indian Express
Professor Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "As the dust starts to settle, political reactions become clearer, and statistical details recede into the background, it is time to concentrate on the big picture that the recent Gujarat elections present."
November 30, 2017 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney in The Indian Express, "...globalisation is in retreat, but nationalist politics is unlikely to fully morph into nationalist economics, at least in the short run."
October 23, 2017 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney, Director of the Center for Contemporary South Asia, in The Indian Express, "Modi might still be very popular, but for him, ideology triumphs over governance, civil liberties are less important than political conformity, and enforcement of a Hindu majoritarian politics is more significant than India’s economic ascendancy."
September 20, 2017
In "India's Democracy at 70: Growth, Inequality, and nationalism," Ashutosh Varshney, Sol Goldman Professor of International Studies and the Social Sciences, deconstructs the benefits and disadvantages of India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
August 18, 2017 Financial Times
August 3, 2017 The Indian Express
Ashutosh Varshney, professor of political science, wrote an op-ed about Nitish Kumar's pragmatic choice to enter an alliance with the BJP political party in India and how it might influence other alliances.
July 25, 2017 The Atlantic
This feature on the origins of "beef lynchings" and the political turmoil that has ensued in India after the death of a Muslim boy includes a perspective by Ashutosh Varshney, professor of political science.
July 13, 2017 The New York Times
The appointment of Yogi Adityanath’s to rule India’s most populous state “invests a certain amount of power in Yogi Adityanath that cannot be easily taken away,” said Ashutosh Varshney, professor of political science and international studies.
July 11, 2017 RN Drive
Professor Ashutosh Varshney joins RN Drive to discuss the rise of populism in the West and in the developing world.