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Jan 12, 2025 | 
kashmirtimes.com | Ajay Gudavarthy
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asserted that it will be in power for a long time. Indian Home Minister Amit Shah recently claimed that the party would be at the helm for the next 15 years. Earlier, in 2015, he had said the next 30-year period would be the era of the BJP. The party has been in power in the state of Gujarat for more than two decades. It has ruled India for over ten years and won a third successive five-year term in June 2024.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
kashmirtimes.com | Ajay Gudavarthy |Jawaharlal Nehru
Ajay Gudavarthy is Associate Professor at Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
scroll.in | Ajay Gudavarthy |Jawaharlal Nehru
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has asserted that it will be in power for a long time. Home Minister Amit Shah recently claimed that the party would be at the helm for the next 15 years. Earlier, in 2015, he had said the next 30-year period would be the era of the BJP. The party has been in power in the state of Gujarat for more than two decades. It has ruled India for over 10 years and won a third successive five-year term in June 2024. What makes the BJP so sure it will continue to be in power?
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Ajay Gudavarthy |Jawaharlal Nehru
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
hardnewsmedia.com | Ajay Gudavarthy
The ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has asserted that it will be in power for a long time. Indian Home Minister Amit Shah recently claimed that the party would be at the helm for the next 15 years. Earlier, in 2015, he had said the next 30-year period would be the era of the BJP. The party has been in power in the state of Gujarat for more than two decades. It has ruled India for over ten years and won a third successive five-year term in June 2024.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
deccanherald.com | Ajay Gudavarthy
Why BJP is confident of being in power for longMalpractices alone cannot explain the continuing electoral success of the BJP. There are complex strategies and political narratives that the party uses to attract voters.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
thediplomat.com | Ajay Gudavarthy
Its ability to set the terms of the national discourse and political agility prompts BJP leaders to claim that they will be in power for a few more decades. India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) asserts that it will be in power for a long time. Indian Home Minister Amit Shah recently claimed that the party would be at the helm for the next 15 years. Earlier, in 2015, he had said the next 30-year period would be the era of the BJP.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
frontline.thehindu.com | Ajay Gudavarthy |Mujibur Rehman |Vaishna Roy
There have been quite a few biographies of B.R. Ambedkar in the past, especially in the last couple of years. What then is the rationale for writing yet another? Anand Teltumbde refers to his book as a “reflective biography”. Iconoclast: A Reflective Biography of Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar attempts to revisit and analyse Ambedkar’s life and ideas in the light of the rise of Hindutva and the failure of anti-caste struggles to counter both “Brahminism and capitalism”.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
indianexpress.com | Ajay Gudavarthy
Caste and prejudiceAmbedkar, on the other hand, equated varna and caste with prejudice and discrimination. Therefore, he did not want Dalits to identify as Hindus. Gandhi thought Dalits identifying as Hindus is important to enforce inclusion. Ambedkar’s idea of inclusion was closer to the modern notion of fraternity, though he did qualify that his fraternity was not that of the French Revolution but came from the Buddhist notions of maitreyi (friendship).
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Oct 29, 2024 | 
telegraphindia.com | Ajay Gudavarthy
Machines make better decisions because they do not suffer from prejudices and markets alone can allow machines to flourish and relieve us from the moral dilemmas of modern life Ajay Gudavarthy Published 30.10.24, 05:41 AM The rise of authoritarian regimes across the world in the 21st century has to do with the complicated relationship between markets and morals. The arrival of market-oriented societies in the 20th century was not just about growth.
