Manan Shivhare

Learning about Elections and Politics

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

India's exam crisis, why are India & China so bad at football, & deaths linked to crumbling infrastructure- Here's what the global media reported on India. @VidhiBhutra explains in ThePrint #GlobalPulse

https://t.co/8EafF7LN2o

[Rahul Verma @rahul_tverma]

Indian Politics Discussion @IIC_Delhi

Monday, July 13, 6:00 pm, IIC Conf. room 1

Ashutosh Varshney in conversation with @AiyarYamini on Indian Democracy

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Pradeep Chhibber @BDUTT @Roshanjnu & myself on Indian Elections

Wednesday, July 15, 6:30, IIC Annex Lecture Room II

[Milan Vaishnav @MilanV]

Very interesting new @AJPS_Editor paper by Agnihotri, Dasgupta, and Kapur on the market for bureaucratic assignments at the local level in India https://t.co/yHSYmCDNI9

[Rahul Verma @rahul_tverma]

Talking Politics

it was a was a pleasure to speak with @nistula on

- whats driving defections & splits in parties
- TMC split
- on political consultants
- future of regional parties

Link: https://t.co/eiJiMOqbPY

[Nishant @NishantTISS]

A new database on all the Muslim MLAs/MPs since 1952.
https://t.co/H3yEJyxnxe

With @Roshanjnu

[BBC News Hindi @BBCHindi]

देश के कई शहरों में अधिकतम तापमान ��ए रिकॉर्ड बना रहा है. उत्तर प्रदेश के बांदा में स्थिति कुछ ज्यादा खराब है. बांदा में 46-48°C तापमान दर्ज किया गया है, जो देश में सबसे ज़्यादा तापमान वाले स्थानों में से एक है.

रिपोर्टः गौरव गुलमोहर
वीडियो प्रोड्यूसरः कुमारी स्नेहा
शूटः कुमार विरेंद्र
एडिटः तेज बहादुर सिंह

[Centre for Policy Research @CPR_India]

What do these Assembly Elections, especially the sweeping verdicts in West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, reveal about India's party system and the trajectory of its democracy?

Join us on Wednesday, 6th May at 5:00 PM IST via Zoom for a panel discussion with Vandita Mishra (National Opinion Editor, @IndianExpress), @vargheseKgeorge ( Resident Editor, Delhi, @the_hindu), @NeelanjanSircar (Associate Professor, @AhdUniv) and @Madhuta (Senior Editor, @livemint). This session will be moderated by @rahul_tverma (Fellow, CPR).

Register to attend: https://t.co/tqkCayp0xu

[Rahul Verma @rahul_tverma]

Must-read @Roshanjnu’s column that pushes back against easy institutional alibis and situates the 2026 verdict in deeper political dynamics. A sharp political economy reading with three clear (grim !) takeaways on the trajectory of Indian politics.

https://t.co/8uIkQgo3wA

[Gilles Verniers @GillesVerniers]

In this piece, I use @PippaN15 's electoral integrity chain framework to explain why the rules of the game cannot be changed unilaterally. This is a road that only has bad outcomes. https://t.co/wrNI61BYcA

[Rahul Verma @rahul_tverma]

Bihar has managed to buck two political trends

1) a BJP CM in every Hindi-speaking state
2) one party always close to majority mark

2025 is not the time to solve this political Rubik’s cube. BJP must shield allies as it it outgrows them.

Link: https://t.co/uoIuEUruV7

[Vidhi Bhutra @VidhiBhutra]

As tensions simmer in Indore's market, read my report for @ThePrintIndia on how the several shop owners are taking Aklavya Singh Gaur's diktat. While some have openly vowed allegiance to the vidhayak putra, others are quietly resisting:
#Indore #Politics

https://t.co/pnEsznMnC5

[ThePrintIndia @ThePrintIndia]

Indore market tense amid MLA son’s diktat to fire all Muslim workers in ‘bazaar ka shuddhikaran’

Vidhi Bhutra @vidhibhutra reports

#ThePrintPolitics

https://t.co/9CIQU6VAqU

[Follow-up Stories @thumbsuckers19]

A complete report and analysis on the #fatehpurmaqbaraattack including #sambhal and other such claims over Muslim religious structures in Uttar Pradesh, questioning the analogy with Babri demolition in understanding present day Hindutva.

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

Everyone slips up sometimes. The real test is how you acknowledge and correct it. @LoknitiCSDS led by @sanjaycsds is one of the finest places to understand India’s elections and polity, they are consistently insightful and non-partisan.

[Manvika shivhare @ManvikaShivhare]

Please read my piece on the merger and closure of 5,000 schools in Uttar Pradesh, and its impact on children from marginalized backgrounds. It explores how the government is quietly dismantling the public education system through these school mergers. https://t.co/hfIEWbUP0j

[Jack Meyer 🏛️ @Jackbmeyer]

Doing economic history

[Neelanjan Sircar @NeelanjanSircar]

This is serious academic work in a news paper. Careful mapping and thinking of demographic and spatial shifts and their consequences.

[Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt]

In a democracy, when and where should majorities rule? And when should their powers ever be limited? Steve Levitsky and I propose a framework to think through these questions in a new piece in the January 2025 issue of 'Journal of Democracy'
https://t.co/T3YgeclBqn

[Alex Lee @AlexanderMkLee]

On open access @PSRMJournal: Ballot symbols influence vote choice in India, and candidates respond by trying to choose popular symbols in a lottery

If you're an independent candidate reading this, you want the diamond ring and you want to avoid the ghobi

https://t.co/5spV0fYTV5

[Devansh Mittal @devanshmittal_]

I dug into Haryana's electoral numbers for @IndianExpress. What I found was troubling for BJP.

BJP not just lost half of its seats in the state, its victory margin on the assembly segments it won has halved from 50k in 2019 to 25k in 2024, while INC remains stable at 30k. (1/2)