Rahul Verma is a fellow at the Center for Policy Research (CPR) in New Delhi. He is also a PhD candidate in political science at the University of California, Berkeley; his doctoral dissertation examines the historical roots of elite persistence in contemporary Indian politics.
On June 4, the ballots of roughly 650 million Indian voters will be counted in the culmination of the country’s eighteenth general election. Join this expert panel as they analyze the results of the election and its implications for India’s future.
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Milan Vaishnav joins Sunetra Choudhury and Rahul Verma for a timely analysis of the latest results from India's general election, focusing on the BJP's unexpected losses.
Carnegie India hosted Rahul Verma and Chirayu Thakkar for a discussion on their study on the Indian public’s opinion toward nuclear warfare with Pakistan. The discussion was moderated by Srinath Raghavan.
In this episode, Rahul Verma joins Suyash Rai to discuss the debate on democratic backsliding.
The description of the battle against the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) as a “war” has graduated from an analogy to a metaphor.
The upsurge in Hindu nationalism ushered in by Modi’s government is reshaping Indian society, secularism, economics, and diplomacy.
While politics in Western liberal democracies revolves around a left-right spectrum, Indian politics is often characterized as non-ideological.