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#Politics | Congress's Telangana Victory: Import of the Karnataka Model

Seyed Hossein Zarhani and Rahul Mukherji✍️
thewire.in/politics/congr…

How can the #BJP be defeated? New in The Wire: ' #Congress 's #Telangana Victory: Import of #Karnataka Model.' Co-authored with Rahul Mukherji , we delve into Congress's success in Telangana via strong leadership, welfare policies, and secularism.
m.thewire.in/article/politi…

Christophe Jaffrelot will deliver a lecture on Formal & Informal factors of #Muslims ' marginalization in today's ' #India South Asia Institute on December 15 2023.
uni-heidelberg.de/sai/pol/Jaffre…

#ICIM is happy to host Panel talk at #Geneva in a parallel event to #UnitedNations 16th Minority session with Dr Harsh Mander Aasif Mujtaba Prof Rahul Mukherji Prof Seyed Hossein Zarhani & MG Devasahayam, moderated by Naila Saeed
Register- tiny.cc/byaevz (streamed here 2)

Rights are important in any democracy for the performsnce of democracy.

If the world's oldest #democracy forgets #Democratic #VALUES for #Growth & #Security , can it partner to secure itself and #democracy ? Should we walk the #talk ?
Fareed Zakaria; Colin Kahl; LarryDiamond; Will Dobson; Journal of Democracy; Ashutosh Varshney

US foreign policy has a deep-seated flaw: Today, it often consists of grand moral declarations that divide the world into black and white, friends and foes. We’re unwilling to talk to everyone in the room and unable to show flexibility.

My take:

Learnings from German history. What is India's contribution? Historic Heidelberg lecture by Dr. Harsh Mander Harsh Mander
Yogendra Yadav; Dr. Anand Kumar; Samruddha Bharat Foundation; Biraj Patnaik

India in Times of Rising Hate: Learning from the German Journey... youtu.be/UdN2JNAnEJg via YouTube

Kashmir Files is a warhead designed to obliterate cosmpololitan India by 2024. Pandits are like the German jews. Muslims are evil. Secular is the problem. Congress, Gandhi, Nehru & even Vajpayee are enemies. Would Kabirdas, Ramakrishna and Vivekananda approve? Is Hindutva Hindu?

اگر امریکا و اروپا هم بخواهند پرونده برجام و اوکراین را جدا نگه دارند روسیه نخواهد گذاشت حتی به قیمت شکست وین. اگر ایران نمی خواهد روسیه #برجام را گروگان بگیرد بهتر است با امریکا مستقیم صحبت کند و قرارداد را نهایی کند

Iran stands in solidarity with India as she braves one of worst episodes of disastrous pandemic, which has become humanity's #CommonPain .

Our condolences to bereaved families & prayers for speedy recovery of all afflicted.

Global coop imperative to end to this global tragedy.

Glad to share my co-authored article with Rahul Mukherji on “Policy paradigms and path dependence: the endogenous roots of institutional displacement and drift in India”. Just out in the Springer Nature journal, Global Public Policy and Governance.
link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Four years of #trump have been good for white supremacists, extremist militias, and lately, plywood manufacturers. The rest of the country: not so much.

News Flash: Secretary Pompeo announces snapback provisions on Iran now back in force.
Also announces:
1. US men's soccer team was real winner of last World Cup.
2. Phlogiston is real.
3. US to open new embassy in Atlantis.

Sad but true!
thewire.in/politics/after…

In 2016, Mearsheimer and I advocated outreach to Iran, warning that 'as its ambitions grow, China will want allies in the Gulf, and Iran will likely top its list.' #Trump and #Pompeo went the other way, and drove Beijing and Iran together. Nice work! nytimes.com/2020/07/11/wor…

Glad to share my co-authored article with Rahul Mukherji Rahul Mukherji on “Governing India: Evolution of Programmatic Welfare in Andhra Pradesh ”. Just out in the latest issue of Studies in Indian Politics.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…
#India #Welfare #AndhraPradesh #mgnrega

Our latest piece:
Can COVID-19 malign the idea of India?

identitiesjournal.com/the-viral-cond…

#India #COVID__19 #coronavirus #federalism #MigrantWorkers