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Debasish Roy Chowdhury

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  1. Article · Sep 19, 2026 · Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    India’s hollow political parties can’t a make solid democracy (opens the original)

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    High drama erupted in the small hours of a suspense-filled January day in Kolkata. Masked officers of the Enforcement Directorate swept into the glossy offices of I-PAC (Indian Political Action Committee), one of the country’s leading political consultancies. They hauled away computers and files as the stunned staff looked on. Mamata Banerjee, then the Bengal chief minister and leader of the state’s governing party, rushed to the scene and walked out with several files. She complained to the rep

  2. Article · Aug 16, 2026 · Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    India’s cockroaches are offering a reality check about the country’s development model (opens the original)

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    Gen Z has already passed the baton in India. After spotlighting the country’s broken public examinations through an unprecedented popular movement, it is Gen Alpha’s turn to lay bare even deeper layers of dysfunction of India’s education system. There’s a message for the world in all this, and it better listen, because India’s education crisis is a global problem. School students have picked up where the “cockroach movement” left off last month when nationwide youth protests that began with a sa

  3. Article · Jul 27, 2026 · Debasish Roy Chowdhury & John Keane

    This book asks if unemployment often translates to cynicism and desire for strong-armed leadership (opens the original)

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    The dangerous work environment of Indian workers is symptomatic of the global decline of organised labour and the corresponding rise of what’s now widely called the “precariat”. India’s new slavery is an egregious version of this trend. A global class of labour that lives perpetually in economic uncertainty and moves in and out of jobs that give little meaning to their lives, the precariat are characterised by volatile earnings, chronic debt, and a lack of non-wage and rights-based state benefit

  4. Article · Jul 26, 2026 · Debasish Roy Chowdhury

    Does Britain’s political volatility reflect a broken democracy – compared to India’s stability? (opens the original)

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    Another change of guard in Downing Street has triggered a renewed bout of concern – and sniggers – over the fragility of British politics and its democracy. Not for the first time, as the country gets its seventh prime minister in 10 years. Four years ago, openDemocracy reported “Boris Johnson has quit, but Britain’s democracy is still broken.” This time, when Keir Starmer put in his papers paving the way for fellow Labour leader Andy Burnham to take over as prime minister, The Economist asked “

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