Who Can Stop Modi and His Authoritarian Vision for India?
Opposition leader Rahul Gandhi’s conviction for criminal defamation is the latest sign that India under Prime Minister Narendra Modi is moving toward Hindu nationalist authoritarianism.
13 Articles by: Achin Vanaik
Achin Vanaik is a writer and social activist, a former professor at the University of Delhi and Delhi-based Fellow of the Transnational Institute, Amsterdam. He is the author of The Painful Transition: Bourgeois Democracy in India and The Rise of Hindu Authoritarianism.
Humanitarian Intervention Is a Cloak for Military Aggression
Despite the disastrous outcomes in Iraq and Afghanistan, supporters of US-led military intervention still claim war can be a humanitarian project. It can’t.
The Indian Farmers’ Movement Has Shown Us How to Fight Narendra Modi
A heroic struggle has stopped Narendra Modi’s government from ramming through regressive farm laws. Modi is still deeply entrenched in power, but the farmers have shown that mass mobilization can pose a bigger challenge to his rule than parliamentary games.
Farmers Are Leading India’s Biggest Social Movement in a Generation
Ongoing protests by Indian farmers are the biggest challenge Narendra Modi’s right-wing government has faced since coming to power. We can get a clearer picture of this movement and its prospects for success by comparing it to the major struggles of India’s past.
The Escalating Crisis on the India-China Border
In the last week, simmering tensions on the Indian-Chinese border in the Himalayas have escalated to open conflict, with fatalities on both sides. India’s foreign policy, and not just China, deserves much blame for the escalation.
Modi Might Have Finally Gone Too Far
With the ongoing mass protests to Modi’s anti-Muslim Citizenship Amendment Act, India is at last seeing a real challenge to right-wing Hindu nationalism.
India’s Supreme Court Ruling Is Another Victory for Hindu Nationalism
The latest decision from the Supreme Court in India has legitimized the destruction of the Babri Mosque. Meanwhile, mainstream parties and commentators refuse to call it what it is: the latest stage in an accelerating process of Hindu ethno-nationalism.
Hindutva on the March
Progressive Indians must oppose governmental violence against Kashmiris. The powers that would seek to deny the oppressed people of Kashmir the right to freely pursue their goal of collective self-determination must be stopped.
The Indian Catastrophe
India’s elections show that right-wing Hindu nationalism has achieved total hegemony over Indian society.
The John McCain of India
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, India’s “statesmanlike” far-right leader, died this month. The praise showered on him by Indian liberals shows how far to the right the country has moved.
Hindutva’s Forward March
In India, Modi’s Hindu nationalist BJP is consolidating its power through vigilante violence, censorship, and state repression.
India’s New Consensus
Recent regional elections in India handed Modi’s BJP important new majorities. How can it be stopped?
A Solution for Kashmir
What would justice for those suffering under Indian occupation in Kashmir look like?