Kaisar Andrabi is a journalist based in India. He writes on politics, tech, human rights, gender and health. His work has been published in Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, The Daily Beast, and Nikkei Asia among other publications.
India’s election commission faces accusations of bias towards the ruling BJP by refusing to reign in the party’s divisive campaign rhetoric and for not providing voter turnout data quickly enough.
Videos of actors like Aamir Khan criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi have dominated social media, muddying the political debate and influencing voter decisions.
India’s national weather service has forecast an abnormally hot April through June, coinciding with the country’s general election. Will polling stations and election rallies be able to beat the heat?
The Congress party and the Communist Party of India will include in their legislative agenda a law to recognise same-sex civil unions, if they win enough votes.
PM Narendra Modi has decided to defy protesters’ demands amid inflation fears, even as the protest threatens to sway the vote in an agriculture-dependent nation, analysts say.
New Delhi authorities last month demolished a 13th-century mosque, sparking further outrage among the minority Muslim community in a largely Hindu nation, after the controversial Ayodhya temple opening last month.