Topic: Democracy
Democracy is at stake as India gears up for national elections
India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his recent speeches has expressed confidence in coming back to power for a third consecutive term as the...
How AI could take over elections – and undermine democracy
Archon Fung, Harvard Kennedy School and Lawrence Lessig, Harvard University
Could organizations use artificial intelligence language models such as ChatGPT to induce voters to behave...
NCERT drops chapters on periodic table, democracy, energy sources from Class 10 textbooks
The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has dropped the chapters on periodic table, democracy and sources of energy from Class 10 textbooks.
India among the ‘worst autocratisers’ in the last 10 years, says Swedish institute
India has been one of the “worst autocratisers” in the last ten years, Sweden-based Varieties of Democracy Institute has said in a report.
The number game called elections: Paradigm from ‘real’ to ‘political’
Many talks of elections centre around arguments about the mandate of the ‘majority’ and the scale of the ‘minority’ (in terms of numbers, or...
Pegasus project: S.A.R Geelani’s son says ‘not surprised’ with phone hack
"Even after his death, they didn't stop," says Syed Athif Geelani, son of Syed Abdul Rahman Geelani whose phone was found infected with Pegasus...
