Manish Sabharwal writes in Indian Express: "Unrealistic ambition and incremental reforms can be self-fulfilling prophecies."

A curious axiom: the BJP garners more votes in ‘strong Muslim’ districts. Bihar was an exception, so the tactic changes.

Mihir Sharma asks: "Why is it that so many of India’s cities, which could be locations for the dissolution of the many barriers that divide us, instead replicate and strengthen them?"; cites IDFC Institute research

What is in favour is a status quo on reforms with progress in advancing them taking place glacially at the margins

Milan Vaishnav examines Indian voter behaviour in a paper for Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

The talk revolved around the changing voting patterns among the Indian electorate

There is a clear decline in percentage of voters choosing the RJD or JD(U) or Congress combined in every election since the 2005 October Vidhan Sabha elections. 

"Jayalalithaa returns as chief minister. Going forward, she will need the support of other parties."

"Roughly 600 million Indians are farmers -- the majority of whom would happily give it up for another job. So why is the Congress party so determined to keep them as peasants?" Rupa Subramanya writes in Foreign Policy.

“The web of interweaving reforms spun around Make in India provides a framework to understand Modi’s reforms process”.