From West Bengal’s ethnic assertions to Tamil Nadu’s celebrity-driven campaigns and U.S. campus free speech disputes, identity politics is shaping both electoral strategies and institutional decisions ...

A new generation of voters is demanding jobs, better infrastructure and transparent governance over traditional political ...

As West Bengal gears up for the 2026 assembly election, the ruling Trinamool Congress has plunged headlong into an emotionally charged campaign centred on identity politics. At the heart of this ...

In Tripura, CPI(M) faces shrinking rural, tribal and Bengali-speaking working-class support, threatening its revival ...

Seven months before elections are held in Assam in March-April 2026, the BJP government in the state approved a regulation that makes seeking police clearance mandatory for inter-religious land ...

Elections in India — home to more than 1.4 billion people — are perpetual, noisy, and fiercely contested. Every few months, in the world’s largest democracy, millions line up to vote somewhere.

In late 2021, the media company Cut released a YouTube video in which a group of strangers interact in a “lineup” form, asking provocative questions based on their identities. One woman, the oldest in ...

Identity politics has been part and parcel of the political evolution of the entire world. It is part of global sociology. Interestingly, rather than diminishing, identity politics is becoming a more ...

“To be white in America,” Robert W. Terry wrote 50 years ago, “is not to have to think about it. Except for hardcore racial supremacists, the meaning of being white is having the choice of attending ...