It is becoming painfully evident that the ailment affecting Indian democracy is not one that a change in government can cure.

Four takeaways from India’s protest movement, at a moment when democracies around the world are under pressure.

A controversial overhaul of voter rolls threatens Modi’s standing and has breathed new life into India’s battered democracy.

The protests challenge the government’s view of who “the people” are, what democracy means, and who speaks for youth, women ...

Dissent, the freedom to differ and oppose, is the soul of democracy. If dissenting voices are curbed and the space of dissent is shrunken in a republic, democracy gasps for survival. And when ...

It started as an online joke after a top judge compared jobless young people to cockroaches. It has become the most serious ...

India is in rebellion. At stake is the very future of the country’s democracy and the potential of its renewal. The mass protests that have unfolded in Delhi since July and flared again this month are ...

Picture this scene: With general elections looming, the leader of the main opposition party is unseated from Parliament, and 146 members of Parliament find themselves suspended for daring to question ...

The disagreement can be traced to paradoxes in four areas: Mandates, authority, institutional autonomy, and competence ...

The world’s biggest electorate has just shown how democracy can rebuke out-of-touch political elites, limit the concentration of power and change a country’s destiny. After a decade in charge, ...

Mukulika Banerjee, a professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science, argued that it takes ...

When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission to help you make sense of the world has never been more vital. But we can’t do it on our ...