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4 posts tagged india.
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Myanmar's junta rewrites its diplomatic passport
Min Aung Hlaing's first foreign trip as Myanmar's president — to India, not China — reveals how a military regime converts battlefield momentum into regional legitimacy.
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BJP cracks Bengal's thirty-year fortress
The BJP's first-ever West Bengal victory ends fifteen years of Trinamool rule but raises harder questions about democracy's health when the loser won't concede.
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Vijay's Tamil Nadu, and the Indian celebrity-state
An actor has been sworn in as chief minister of one of India's largest states. The film-politics fusion is older than the BJP, and it tells you something the Modi-era debate misses.
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Modi takes Bengal, and the slow death of regional India
The BJP's capture of West Bengal is less a personal triumph for Narendra Modi than the further consolidation of an Indian politics in which regional identity is being absorbed into the national party.