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Electoral Bonds Scheme: The Decision, Its Design, and the Supreme Court Verdict

For six years, India's political parties could receive donations through an instrument that kept the donor's identity secret from the public, though not necessarily from the…

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Women’s Reservation Bill: How Modi’s Government Passed the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam

A reform first proposed in the 1990s finally passed Parliament in September 2023, decades after it had repeatedly stalled under multiple previous governments. This article covers…

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New Parliament Building: Modi’s Decision to Build a New Sansad Bhavan

India's Parliament moved into a brand-new building in 2023, replacing a structure that had housed the country's legislature since colonial times. This article covers the new…

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Renaming Rajpath to Kartavya Path: The Decision and Its Symbolism

The road connecting India's presidential residence to India Gate has now carried three different names across less than a century, each reflecting a different political moment.…

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G20 Presidency 2023: Why Hosting It Was a Strategic Decision for Modi

Every G20 member takes a turn hosting the group's annual summit, but India's 2023 presidency was treated by Modi's government as far more than a routine…

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Chandrayaan-3: The Government Push Behind India’s Moon Landing

On August 23, 2023, India became the fourth country ever to successfully land a spacecraft on the moon, and the first to do so near the…

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Vaccine Maitri: Modi’s Decision to Export COVID Vaccines Globally

For a few months in early 2021, India positioned itself as the world's vaccine supplier of choice, before a devastating domestic wave forced a sharp reversal.…

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COVID-19 Lockdown 2020: Inside Modi’s Decision-Making Timeline

On the evening of March 24, 2020, Modi told the country in a television address that a strict nationwide lockdown would begin at midnight, hours later.…

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Jan Dhan Yojana: Modi’s Decision to Bank the Unbanked

Launched in August 2014 and mentioned briefly in our article on Modi's first 100 days, Jan Dhan Yojana set out to solve a basic but massive…

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