Badri Narayan

Why political parties that rely on caste mobilisation fail

May 13, 2024

Changing public aspirations and developmental desire of the people are key factors There is a dominant view among public, politicians, academicians and media that Indian election is all about managing the caste. This political management of caste is being named as social engineering in contemporary discourse. This is election time...

Is this election ‘Modi-image centric’?

May 6, 2024

We need to see whether in upcoming phases it may return towards developmental and futuristic debates of Indian democracy or may progress towards conventional line of identity politics. I have started saying and writing that this parliamentary election has no narrative. It was difficult to accept for the people in...

Why BJP’s Sankalp Patra scores over Cong’s Nyay Patra

April 24, 2024

The elections are lifeline for democracy in India and also other parts of the world. The elections provide us opportunities to create public discourse on vision and plans for the development of nation and making future India. The battle for making sarkar in the 2024 is going on. All the...

Election perceived differently by different sections in society

April 7, 2024

The shift of political subjectivity of the marginalized social groups in rural sites of North India is towards moving from caste identity-based politics to the rise of developmental aspirations. The democratic time never becomes homogeneous. It’s always heterogeneous. This multiple democratic time reflects in various forms of democratic consciousness in...

Relevance of small political parties

April 5, 2024

Democracy evolves and deepens when people get multiple political choices in electoral politics. As we know, the lifeline of democracy is elections which elect the government. The democratically elected government ensures democratic distribution of developmental resources in the country. In the politics of election, multiplicity of choices provides us multiple...

General election 2024: Saffron party is ahead of its rivals

March 21, 2024

The dates of Parliamentary election announced have been announced by the Election Commission. This Parliamentary election will be held in seven phases which will begin on April 19 and continue till June 1. The counting will take place on June 4 from which the shape and the face of new...

Political choice for Muslims is diverse

March 5, 2024

A section of Muslim voters is getting mobilised in favour of BJP too The parliamentary election-2024 is going to be held soon. Like other elections, various speculation are doing the rounds as to who Muslims are going to vote for. There is a common perception that Muslims in India ,especially...

LS polls will be a War of Images

February 27, 2024

Opposition will have to contest mega image of PM Modi who is perceived as a yugpurush. It is almost clear now, that the coming parliamentary election-2024 is going to be a direct contest between Bhartiya Janaa Party (BJP) led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) and Congress lead I. N. D. I....

PM Modi’s Image as ‘Yug Purusha’

February 23, 2024

Youths in small district towns of provincial India consume images of political icons in certain typology. This is’ image-time’. The image-time means we are leaving in the time of images. The images come to us through various kinds of orality, learned perceptions, electronic -- print media and through various social...

Neo-Liberal time Literature has Reinvented another form of Expression

February 10, 2024

LitFests are emerging not only as a space of discussion and discourse but also as literary carnivals. Neo- liberal economy introduced in the decade of 90s brought a drastic change in socio-cultural and political textures of India. However, it was introduced by during the prime ministership of PV Narshimha Rao...

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