Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has figured out what his fellow populists like British Prime Minister Boris Johnson or Brazil’s Jair B...
- Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has figured out what his fellow populists like British Prime Minister Boris Johnson or Brazil’s Jair Bolsonaro may not have: that all they need to do is make it seem like they are acting in the face of crisis to remain popular, even if those actions are utter failures, writes Mihir Sharma for Bloomberg.
- States that fail to enforce a monopoly on violence and are unable to collect or disburse tax cannot survive for very long, writes Devangshu Datta in the Business Standard. “I can think of a country where all these breakdowns have occurred in catastrophic fashion in the recent past... These things can simmer for a long time but I cannot think of too many historical examples where such a complete breakdown in compacts has ended well. In fact, I can’t think of any.”
- Why should the collective burden of standing up against state repression always fall on a few individuals in the film fraternity known for being willing to speak out, asks Ankur Pathak in the Huffington Post.
- V Venkatesan has a five-part series for the Wire examining the judicial career and pronouncements of Justice Arun Mishra, the controversial Supreme Court judge who retired at the start of the month.
- “India in 2020 is a country in pain – millions have...
