In her landmark study, Why Electoral Integrity Matters, the political scientist Pippa Norris argues that an election is not a single event but a sequential chain of 11 links, starting with constituency delimitation and the...
WHEN MS GOLWALKAR DIED in Nagpur, the seat of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh, there were some unexpected celebrations in parts of the city. Golwalkar had led the RSS for thirty-three years—longer than anyone before or since—shaping it into a...
Air India Flight 171 was one of the shortest flights in aviation history: just 32 seconds from takeoff to crash. It took 260 lives. A close analysis of those 32 seconds makes it increasingly clear that the disaster was not the result of a single...
The Bharatiya Janata Party’s landslide victory in the West Bengal assembly election, held in April, has been clouded by allegations of electoral malpractice. At a press conference on 5 May, a day after the election results showed the BJP...
