Danielle Rajendram is a Lowy Institute research associate. Her work focuses on Indian foreign and domestic policy, India-China relations and Asian security.
- Why has Rahul Gandhi failed to win an edge among youth voters?
- SA Aiyar predicts that a second Asian Financial Crisis is on its way.
- Why it's in India's interests to encourage dialogue between Pakistan and Afghanistan.
- Two renowned economists go head to head on the best way to address poverty in India.
- India is falling behind China in maritime capabilities. Sam Roggeveen looks at why.
- The Rudd Government's Asian Century Country Strategy for India was released this week.
- The New Yorker profiles Indian anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal (paywalled).
- A new study has reveals that genetic mixing in India ended roughly 1900 years ago, at the same time the caste system was being codified.
- Ruchir Sharma makes a case for looking at Indian politics at the state level.
Things do look bad in New Delhi, but the capital is not the whole of India. Think of the country as a continent, like Europe. After all, it is made up of 28 states, the largest of which, Uttar Pradesh, has more than 200 million people. India has 34 officially recognized languages, and only 40 percent of Indians speak a dialect of its first language, Hindi. There is as much variation in the political and economic culture among India’s states as there is within Europe; Bihar and Gujarat are as different as Germany and Greece .