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Debasish Roy Chowdhury
Formerly with the South China Morning Post, Debasish is an award-winning journalist and co-author of 'To Kill A Democracy: India's Passage To Despotism' (OUP, 2021).
The failures of India’s dance with democracy are long in the making and not only linked to Narendra Modi’s brand of populism, write Debasish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane in their new book ‘To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism’.
Democracy’s struggles are internal, not geopolitical. It needs to clean up its act, not pick fights with autocrats, writes Debasish Roy Chowdhury.
A grand religious project at the disputed site marks India’s makeover from a secular democracy into a majoritarian order.
The countries’ refusal to draw a line on the ground gives the lie to their grand declarations of peace.
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When India’s higher-caste policy elite look at migrant workers, they see low-borns struggling to survive, and cannot understand what the fuss is about. Isn’t that the natural order of things?
The failure of opposition parties to effectively counter the BJP’s Hindu nationalist agenda is part of the reason for the deadly Delhi riots.
An attack on students at an Indian university deepens fears of Narendra Modi’s creeping authoritarianism and spurs more protests nationwide against new citizenship law.
Opposition to India’s new citizenship initiatives challenges the rise of a paramount leader with unprecedented powers.
Pincer attack with citizenship law and population verification sets the stage for prolonged unrest.
Mass statelessness looms for Hindu and Muslim Bengali speakers after harrowing, often fatal, citizenship test. A special provision to save only Hindus is an option, but faces resistance in region where identity is more cultural than religious
Hong Kong and Indian Kashmir. One is administered by the world’s biggest democracy and one is the democracy-craving outlier of an authoritarian state. Which is which? These days, it’s hard to tell …
Pakistan-based group’s claim of responsibility poses foreign policy challenge to Indian prime minister.
Its Middle Eastern neighbours tried to choke the small Gulf state, but in effect forced Qatar to find creative solutions, new trade routes, and push reforms at a faster pace.
Outsiders jostle for space in war-ravaged Philippine city while its own languish on the margins waiting for the government to rebuild it anew.
Philippine strongman finds himself between a rock and a hard place as Beijing refuses to let up on militarising areas it claims in the South China Sea.
Unexpected meeting between two leaders comes as a major course correction for a fraught relationship as Asian giants re-evaluate their options vis-à-vis one another as well as Trump’s America.
As a new government takes charge in Kathmandu, the geopolitics of the Himalayas may change, the same way it did in the Indian Ocean.
Once barely a footnote in the tourism stats of the Himalayan nation, Chinese visitors now compete for prominence and are likely to grow exponentially once infrastructure improvements pave way for more of them.
New communist prime minister says extending Tibet rail to Kathmandu will spur trade, seeks to widen options beyond India.
A fresh Chinese build-up in the Himalayan area of a summer stand-off raises fears in Delhi that the August peace deal may be unravelling, paving the way for an even bigger confrontation
A revolt in India’s Supreme Court can be traced to a case linked to one of the most difficult phases of the Indian leader’s career
The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi finds himself at a crossroads in his journey to the West
