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Shashi Tharoor writes: Why an 850-seat Lok Sabha threatens Indian democracy (opens the original)
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The government’s seeming determination to proceed with a revised delimitation that drastically increases the size of the Lok Sabha to 824 or 850 seats marks a disastrous watershed in India’s institutional architecture. The underlying justification offered by the government is purely mathematical: The size of the Lower House cannot remain frozen at the 543-seat limit established in 1972, since when the nation’s population has more than doubled. Yet, beneath this seemingly democratic argument lies
Shashi Tharoor writes: When the streets burn, Parliament cannot act blind (opens the original)
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The true measure of a constitutional democracy lies not in the authority it wields to enforce compliance, but in the humility with which it engages dissent. A secure republic treats peaceful protest as an opportunity to look into a mirror reflecting the anxieties of its citizenry. A fragile executive, by contrast, treats that same mirror as an enemy, shattering it with lathis and turning a blind eye when the glass pieces fall on the streets outside the gates of power, cutting the veins of its ci
Shashi Tharoor writes: America fought a war with Iran to sign a worse deal than before (opens the original)
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The resumption of the Iran war, with a dramatic escalation of tit-for-tat military operations, has laid bare the realities of modern warfare. In hindsight, perhaps the US was itching to show the world that the MoU that inaugurated the truce was not the strategic disaster it was widely perceived to be. After all, the invading coalition launched “Epic Fury”, premised on overwhelming force and decisive transformation, but the military campaign was regarded as an Epic Failure — a textbook example of
Shashi Tharoor writes: India and Japan must build Asia’s defining partnership (opens the original)
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When Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was in Delhi last week, I was in Japan. There was no connection between the two trips, but we both had a common message: A stronger India-Japan relationship is imperative for both countries at this time of global turbulence. The first official three-day visit of PM Takaichi for the 16th India-Japan Annual Summit (July 1 to 3) marked a major turning point for Indo-Pacific diplomacy, injecting a massive $12.5 billion in fresh Japanese investment into inf
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