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Time of India
3 days ago
- Politics
- Time of India
Bihar: Kings & Kingmakers
Bihar: Kings & Kingmakers Uday Chandra Jun 20, 2025, 21:18 IST IST It's likely to be another close poll. Neither NDA nor INDIA, partly because their playbooks are similar in some ways, has a winning formula yet. Smaller parties will look to cash in Modi's rally in Siwan yesterday showed that the build-up to the Bihar assembly polls is well and truly underway. It's a truism that Biharis do not merely cast their vote, but vote their caste. The state has become synonymous with what the political scientist Edward Banfield termed 'amoral familism'. In an agrarian society defined by the Permanent Settlement, a narrow understanding of self-interest, limited to one's nuclear family and its extensions, undermines any notion of the common good. Jockeying for power and privilege is largely a zero-sum game: the empowerment of some depends on the immiseration of others.
Al Jazeera
12-05-2025
- General
- Al Jazeera
Pakistan's stance against 'all-out war' should be taken seriously
Uday Chandra, assistant professor at Georgetown University Qatar, says that while India-Pakistan relations may return to normal, one thing could shift.
South China Morning Post
18-02-2025
- Business
- South China Morning Post
India can lessen reliance on Russian oil if US emerges as key supplier
This Week in Asia Economics Published: 5:30pm, 18 Feb 2025 Analysts expect Delhi to welcome the move by Washington, which could induce Russia to sell its oil at market rates. India and China are among the top buyers of cheap Russian oil. 'Russian oil will remain important [for India] but the wartime surge will decline soon enough. The US will fill that gap,' said Uday Chandra, a political scientist at Georgetown University. Trump has suggested he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin this week, raising hopes that negotiations could end three years of fighting in Ukraine. India, which imports 85 per cent of its oil needs, has increasingly relied on supplies of discounted Russian oil in recent years. From less than 1 per cent before the Ukraine war, Russia later accounted for 40 per cent of India's oil imports. But its share is estimated to have dropped to 25-30 per cent since the US imposed fresh sanctions on entities transporting Russian oil late last year.
