Democracy
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Yingluck runs out of luck
On the Constitutional Court’s removal of Yingluck Shinawatra, the poster notes claims of judicial bias and argues orderly non-democratic rule cannot replace political freedom, seeing Thailand’s red and yellow shirts…
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Politics
Ugly duckling hopes to be a swan
The poster argues that India’s costly elections are worth it because the state does one large task reasonably well, with heavyweight losers accepting narrow defeats; an Economist extract on how…
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Economy
Indelible (not quite) ink: Maharajah brand
A report on the Mysore factory that makes the indelible ink used on voters’ fingers around the world, which the poster sees as an Indian technology success.
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History
“experiment of developing India ….has failed”
A note on Ramachandra Guha’s review of Neville Maxwell’s 1967 Times of London predictions that Indian democracy was disintegrating, and how well his verdicts have held up.
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Politics
“I have been too comfortable”
A report on Hong Kong’s democracy activists, with the poster arguing that imposing democracy from above is hard but an imperfect democracy beats autocracy, and that many Indian elites prefer…
