He calls for reforms to strengthen meritocracy and ensure leadership positions are filled based on ability, not family ties.

Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has once again sparked a debate. In an essay, he called out dynastic politics in India. The ...

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor calls dynastic politics a grave threat to Indian democracy. He argues power should be ...

Shashi Tharoor warns that dynastic politics threatens Indian democracy, advocating for meritocracy over lineage in leadership ...

Shashi Tharoor stressed that while the Nehru-Gandhi family is most associated with dynastic politics in India, the practice ...

Pandey became the CM of Bihar after an era of great instability, when the Congress secured a mandate that showed the people ...

Power of surname, feudal systems, cliques, and a lack of internal democracy in parties among issues raised by Shashi Tharoor ...

It is high time India traded dynasty for meritocracy. This would require fundamental reforms, from imposing legally mandated term limits to requiring meaningful internal party elections, together with ...

The article comes days ahead of the first phase voting for the Bihar polls, in which RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav is running as ...

Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi, saying that the very idea that political leadership can be a birthright was cemented by the Nehru-Gandhi family.

In 13 days, India countered Pakistan’s crackdown in East Pakistan, executing coordinated land, air and sea campaigns that forced a Dec 16 surrender and birthed Bangladesh, reshaping South Asia.

On June 5, 1974, at Patna's Gandhi Maidan, JP Narayan gave the call for Sampoorna Kranti (Total Revolution). He demanded an end to corruption, the cleansing of politics, and a rebuilt India rooted in ...