Op-eds & Media Engagement

Op-eds


Digital Flux Has Coarsened the Mediascape of the World’s Largest Democracy

Centre for International Governance Innovation, 10 July 2024

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India in 2025: the year ahead in politics, economics, and foreign affairs

Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 24 January 2025

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A Nation in Social, Political Flux: A Saffron Right Rises

Hindustan Times, 5 April 2024

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As the party of Mandela crumbles, South Africa faces a democratic reckoning

The Globe and Mail, 3 June 2024

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India’s Election Shake-Up Will Impact Canada

The Walrus, 24 June 2024

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In India, the government’s election machine is humming – but the economy and democracy are at risk

The Globe and Mail, 22 March 2022

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Winner-take-all elections can erode trust in democracy

The Globe and Mail, 17 October 2022

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Narendra Modi is forging a Hindu nation in the world’s largest democracy

The Globe and Mail, 20 January 2024

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Biden’s Summit for Democracy creates an opportunity to rethink our current political path

The Globe & Mail, 3 December 2021

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The domestic fault lines of China's transformation

The Globe & Mail, 28 January 2022

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The HIV-AIDS crisis showed us to equitably overcome a pandemic

The Globe and Mail, 19 January 2022 (with Roojin Habibi, Uchechukwu Ngwaba and Obiora Chinedu Okafor)

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Democratic accountability does not justify hoarding our vaccines

Global Policy, 2 July 2021

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The rising threat to democracies

Policy Options, 7 September 2021

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Early lessons on electoral participation and modernizing elections after the pandemic

Policy Options, 20 September 2021, co-authored with Ann Dickie

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The lasting legacy of a PM by fluke

The Indian Express, 6 December 2012

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The political stakes are very high in Kashmir

The Star, 9 August 2019

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India’s farmers are right to protest against agricultural reforms

The Conversation, 24 January 2021

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Media and Podcast Interviews


Trump vs Harris: Who has the upper hand on eve of polling day?

In Focus podcast, The Hindu, 4 November 2024.

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Is India undermining Canadian sovereignty

he Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO, 23 October 2024.

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Canada-India soaring doplomatic relations

Global Focus, RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong, 17 October 2024.

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Do coalition governments slow down the economic reforms agenda?

The Hindu, June 18 2024 Host: Sanjay Ruparelia Discussant: John Shields Panel 1: “Critical reflections on Canadian immigration and integration policies.” Migration Working Group: Year-end Symposium, CERC in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University.

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The Rise and Decline of Erdogan with Kaya Genç, On the Frontlines of Democracy podcast

Faculty of Arts and School of Journalism, TMU, June 4 2024 Discussant: Bryan Evans Roundtable Chair, The Canadian State: Political Economy and Political Power Fifty Years On, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Political Science Association, McGill University, Montreal.

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From chaiwalla to prime minister: Hindu nationalism and Narendra Modi’s rise to power

Critical South podcast, June 4 2024

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The Stakes of India’s Election as Modi Seeks Third Term

Menaka Raman-Wilms, The Decibel podcast, The Globe and Mail, 18 April 2024

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What’s at Stake in Indian’s Election?

Matt Galloway, The Current, CBC Radio, 23 April 2024

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Inde: cinq enjeux au cœur de la plus grosse élection du monde

Ximena Sampson, Radio Canada, 19 April 2024

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The India-Canada Conundrum

Grand Tamasha, Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, Washington, D.C., and the Hindustan Times, 07 November 2023

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The Year 1989: Uprisings and Downfalls

CBC Ideas broadcast, 26 January 2024 Panelists: Sanjay Ruparelia Co-panelists: Miglena Todorova (University of Toronto) and Arne Kislenko (TMU). Moderated by Nahlah Ayed.

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How does confrontation with India fit in with Canada’s Indo-Pacific “pivot”?

The Hindu, 10 October 2023

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On the Canada-India diplomatic row (CBCS)

CBC 99.9FM, 20 September 2023

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On the Canada-India diplomatic row (CBLA)

CBC Radio One 99.1FM, 3 October 2023

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On the Canada-India diplomatic row (CBS News)

Andrew Nichols, CBC News Network, 20 September 2023

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Is India’s democracy in crisis under Modi?

Steve Paikin, The Agenda, 6 March 2023. Co-panelists: Shekhar Gupta (The Print, India), Neeti Nayyar (University of Virginia), and Vivek Dehejia (Carlton University)

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The Shock of the New|The Year 1947: Fractures and Tectonic Shifts

CBC Ideas, 4 November 2022

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Is democracy western or universal?

The OpenCanada Podcast #6, 21 January 2022

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On anti-India graffiti on Hindu temples

Naveet Nanwa, Windsor Morning, CBC Radio One 97.5 FM (CBEW), 11 April 2023


On extrajudicial killing in India

The World This Weekend, CBC Radio One 99.1FM (CBLA), 16 April 2023


Lessons from the AIDS crisis

Reshmi Nair, CBC Network News, 23 January 2022


The 2021 federal election campaign

Leah Hendry, Radio Noon, CBC Radio One, Montreal, 8 September 2021

Quoted in Media


What’s behind ‘mounting tensions’ in the Indian diaspora in Canada?

Uday Rana, The Globe and Mail, 23 September 2023

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Canada-India relationship hits low point as policy differences at G20 summit overshadow trade

Neil Moss, The Hill Times, 13 September 2023

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What the G20 summit revealed about the Modi Trudea relationship

David Moscrop, GZero, 14 September 2023

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India raises concerns over diplomatic security, wants Canadian missions ‘better secured’

Niel Moss, The Hill Times, 24 May 2023

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Movement out of India that ‘disseminates hate’ victimizes minority groups, report says

Lisa Xing, CBC News, 1 March 2023. Broadcast on CBC Radio One, 2 March 2023

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Three ways to fix the Canadian electoral system

Peter Harder, Policy Options, 2 November 2022

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Punjabi voters demand candidates take a stand on Indian farmers’ movement

Uday Rana, The Globe and Mail, 18 September 2021

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Charity and good intentions will not end the Covid-19 pandemic

Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 23 September 2021

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Canada needs to fulfill its promises on vaccines and become part of the solution

Shashika Bandara, McGill Perspectives on Global Health, 16 November 2021

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India's surprise about-face on farming laws a 'monumental moment' for diaspora in Canada

Shanifa Nasser, CBC News, 19 November 2021

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Why India's failure to take a hard stance on Russia could backfire

Chris O'Neill Yates, CBC News, 10 March 2022

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Indian envoy hopes to see interim trade deal with Canada finalized in ‘about a year’

Neil Moss, The Hill Times, 24 March 2022

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