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Prerna Singh delivers inaugural Adrian Leftwich Memorial Lecture

October 21, 2021

Jim Crow Hindutva — Varshney in the Indian Express

October 19, 2021

The Fractured Himalaya: India Tibet China 1949-62 Book Cover

The Fractured Himalaya — A new book by former Meera & Vikram Gandhi Fellow Nirupama Rao

October 18, 2021

Kalaiyarasan A. in The Hindu: Dravidam 2.0 as a time to reflect, for action

September 22, 2021

Arvind Subramanian's book "Eclipse" Reviewed by The Economist

September 16, 2021

Mamtaj Begum at her home in Dalgaon, in the northeast Indian state of Assam. Her husband has been imprisoned for more than a year.

Varshney Quoted in Time Magazine

September 16, 2021

The Conversation Piece

Nationalism Is Not Always Bad for Democracy: Prerna Singh on "The Conversation Piece" Podcast

September 10, 2021

President Biden

Ashutosh Varshney in the Indian Express: Understanding the foreign policy doctrine of the Biden era

September 7, 2021

Yogi Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh state in northern India, is promoting legislation encouraging two-children-only families. Critics accuse him of fomenting Hindu anger against the country's growing Muslim population. (Ritesh Shukla/NurPhoto/Getty Images)

Varshney in the Washington Post: In India, a debate over population control turns explosive

August 29, 2021

Faiz Ahmed interviews about the latest unfolding crisis in Afghanistan with the Boston Globe and local ABC News

August 27, 2021

abstract drawing of living vs those we've lost to covid

Arvind Subramanian in the Indian Express: Why we need to count the Covid dead

August 25, 2021

On the Ground in Afghanistan: Professor Singh provides commentary on BBC's "Business Matters"

August 24, 2021

What does it mean to be Indian? Varshney in the Indian Express

July 26, 2021

"India's Streaming Auteurs" Karan Mahajan in the New York Review

July 13, 2021 Netflix: Sacred Games

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In Defense of India's Noisy Democracy, Patrick Heller in The Hindu

July 12, 2021

Populism and Hindu Nationalism, Ashutosh Varshney Contributes to and Edits an Issue of SCID

July 9, 2021

The changing demand for welfare in rural Pakistan

July 6, 2021

Will the Electorate Hold the BJP Responsible for the Suffering During the Pandemic?

June 25, 2021

No Country for Workers: Latest Stranded Workers Action Network Report

June 23, 2021

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Prerna Singh on the Nature of Nationalism in India

June 21, 2021

The challenges before the Dravidian model of development Kalaiyarasan in the Indian Express

June 16, 2021

Ashish Jha in his office

Faculty Fellow, Ashish Jha Presents at ISEC Bangalore on Lessons from Pandemic

June 14, 2021

Kalaiyarasan A. in The Hindu: Adverse changes, federalism imperilled

June 4, 2021

Professor Heller in The Hindu on on COVID-19 and Elected Autocrats

June 1, 2021

Professor Varshney on Suffering at the Hands of Powerful Men on NDTV's "Reality Check"

May 13, 2021

Funeral pyres of victims of COVID-19 burn at a lot that has been converted into a mass crematorium in New Delhi on April 24.

Professor Singh in the LA Times on How anti-democratic politics make India’s COVID calamity worse

May 10, 2021

Varshney in the Indian Express on The link between great power and great suffering

May 6, 2021

Varshney Episode of Sensing the Sacred Highlighted in The India Cable

April 19, 2021

A voter showing ink mark after casting vote at Dhoska village in Purulia during the first phase of West Bengal Assembly elections.

Kalaiyarasan A. in the Indian Express: Polarisation in the Bengal polls could have repercussions for the state’s politics

April 16, 2021

Kalaiyarasan A. interview on Pandemic and Party Manifestos published in Indian Express

April 1, 2021

Kalaiyarasan A. in The Hindu: Tamil Nadu’s distinct growth path is in peril

March 25, 2021

A Review of Vazira Zamindar's edited Volume: Love, War and Other Longings

March 11, 2021 South Asia Magazine

Ashutosh Varshney on NDTV's Reality Check

March 4, 2021

Prof Varshney in New Trending Globally Podcast | India and the US in a Time of Democratic Erosion

February 24, 2021

Varshney on NDTV's "Reality Check: Disha, Dissent, Democracy"

February 23, 2021

A woman selling the Indian Flag in Chandigarh

Varshney in the Indian Express on Democratic Backsliding in India

February 23, 2021

CTV News: Prerna Singh

January 28, 2021

Man in in traffic panhandling

Kalaiyarasan A. on How India has become an unequal republic

January 26, 2021

New book on the life of M.K. Gandhi Edited by M&VG Fellow Gopalkrishnan Gandhi

January 19, 2021

Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.

Varshney in the Indian Express on Trump's Failed Coup

January 9, 2021