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Milan Vaishnav

Milan Vaishnav

Articles by Milan Vaishnav

Hits and misses in the one nation, one election idea

India’s current electoral calendar ensures that some part of the country is almost always in campaign mode. Proponents argue that constant elections constitute an undue burden on the State’s coffers. (ANI)

Updated on Aug 9, 2025 14:32 IST

Indian Americans and the future of US-India ties

US-India relations do not rank as a top-tier election issue for the diaspora. Like the broader American electorate, Indian Americans referenced inflation, abortion, and jobs and the economy as their most pressing concerns in November 2024 (Getty Images)

Updated on Mar 29, 2025 15:46 IST

Tremors in Washington, aftershocks in New Delhi

Indian reformers should not conflate their desire to eliminate the vestiges of the Licence Raj with DOGE’s bureaucratic machinations (REUTERS)

Updated on Mar 8, 2025 15:36 IST

With Trump, it’s back to the future for the US

FILE PHOTO: Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump attends his campaign rally at Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, U.S., November 1, 2024. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo (REUTERS)

Updated on Nov 6, 2024 13:43 IST

Is India’s fourth party system intact?

For the first time since Narendra Modi catapulted to power in 2014, the BJP is reliant on its National Democratic Alliance (NDA) partners (AFP)

Updated on Sep 29, 2024 23:33 IST

Looking back before looking ahead in 2024

New Delhi, India - June 3, 2024: BSF jawan stand infront of Parliament on the eve of result of General Lok Sabha election in New Delhi, India, on Monday, June 3, 2024. (Photo by Arvind Yadav/ Hindustan Times)

Updated on Jun 4, 2024 19:39 IST

Foreign policy shift may shape Lok Sabha polls

According to a 2023 Pew survey, nearly seven in 10 Indians believed that their country’s global influence was getting stronger.

Updated on Apr 15, 2024 02:21 IST

Ideas for India: The CPR saga is a cautionary tale

Office of the Centre for Policy Research at Diplomatic Enclave in New Delhi. (Vipin Kumar/ HT Photo)

Updated on Mar 27, 2024 17:59 IST

On electoral bonds, a short-lived celebration

Five-judge bench of Supreme Court delivers landmark judgment on electoral bonds scheme case

Updated on Feb 17, 2024 16:30 IST

What may shape the 2024 elections

In an earlier era of Indian politics, scholars detected an unmistakable relationship between state and national elections.

Updated on Dec 18, 2023 06:23 IST

What may shape the 2024 Lok Sabha elections

The BJP appears to have an edge over the Opposition

Updated on Dec 18, 2023 06:00 IST

In 2023, a new road map for India’s Opposition

Any realistic assessment of the next national polls must begin with the premise that the BJP is exceptionally well placed. And at long last, there are signs of creative destruction underway in the Opposition ranks.

Updated on Dec 17, 2022 14:03 IST

For the Opposition, it is a moment of reckoning

The 2022 assembly results, in which the BJP triumphed in four of five states, indicate that its dominant position has consolidated further.

Updated on Mar 19, 2022 12:24 IST

The dismal functioning of democracy in Indian states

In a diverse polity like India, a focus on national developments should not obscure the backsliding transpiring in the states. That would be a disservice to both federalism and freedom.

Updated on Mar 5, 2022 12:00 IST

America’s democratic decay under Trump

Trump supporters gesture to US Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber after breaching the halls of the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2021 (AP)

Updated on Jan 9, 2021 15:05 IST

US: The end of a corrosive chapter

The desire to turn the page is palpable. Women, ethnic and racial minorities, and urban and suburban dwellers turned out in historic numbers to put an end to the Trump presidency

Updated on Nov 9, 2020 01:11 IST

The double-speak of parties on foreign funding | Opinion

In 2014, the Delhi High Court found both the BJP and the Congress guilty of accepting donations from several foreign corporations

Updated on Jul 1, 2020 14:34 IST

From nation-state to state-nation

Religion is the only cleavage that can be reduced to a bipolar majority-minority contest in India

Updated on Dec 18, 2019 13:05 IST

What the 2024 battle may look like

The BJP is banking on nationalism and welfarism. The Congress’ only line of attack is a sinking economy

Updated on Sep 18, 2019 14:26 IST

Modi owns the win and the aftermath

Indian voters — like their counterparts across the democratic world — are yearning for a strong, centralising leader

Updated on May 23, 2019 17:04 IST

House must act, but the courts cannot absolve themselves

The Supreme Court, however, lamented the growing criminalisation of politics in India.

Updated on Sep 25, 2018 17:58 IST

Karnataka election results confirm a trend in another harsh blow to Congress

Supporters of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) carry cut-out photographs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party president Amit Shah as they celebrate early leads for the party in the Karnataka state elections in Bangalore on May 15, 2018.

Updated on May 15, 2018 15:26 IST

Opinion: 2019 general election will be no cakewalk for Narendra Modi, BJP

Opinion polls reveal that Prime Minister Narendra Modi remains highly popular after four years in office, and the BJP has managed to methodically expand its footprint in the numerous state elections since 2014, writes Milan Vaishnav.

Updated on Apr 16, 2018 10:09 IST

Finance bill makes funding for political parties more opaque than ever

Voters at a polling booth in Thane , February 21. With the stated intention of improving “transparency in electoral funding,” the government has accomplished precisely the opposite objective

Updated on Apr 2, 2017 01:39 IST

Book excerpt: How criminals were inducted into Indian politics during Emergency

Updated on Feb 27, 2017 15:55 IST

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