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
India in 2025: the year ahead in politics, economics, and foreign affairs
Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, 24 January 2025
A Nation in Social, Political Flux: A Saffron Right Rises
Hindustan Times, 5 April 2024
As the party of Mandela crumbles, South Africa faces a democratic reckoning
The Globe and Mail, 3 June 2024
India’s Election Shake-Up Will Impact Canada
The Walrus, 24 June 2024
In India, the government’s election machine is humming – but the economy and democracy are at risk
The Globe and Mail, 22 March 2022
Winner-take-all elections can erode trust in democracy
The Globe and Mail, 17 October 2022
Narendra Modi is forging a Hindu nation in the world’s largest democracy
The Globe and Mail, 20 January 2024
Biden’s Summit for Democracy creates an opportunity to rethink our current political path
The Globe & Mail, 3 December 2021
The domestic fault lines of China's transformation
The Globe & Mail, 28 January 2022
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)
Democratic accountability does not justify hoarding our vaccines
Global Policy, 2 July 2021
The rising threat to democracies
Policy Options, 7 September 2021
Early lessons on electoral participation and modernizing elections after the pandemic
Policy Options, 20 September 2021, co-authored with Ann Dickie
The lasting legacy of a PM by fluke
The Indian Express, 6 December 2012
The political stakes are very high in Kashmir
The Star, 9 August 2019
India’s farmers are right to protest against agricultural reforms
The Conversation, 24 January 2021
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.
Is India undermining Canadian sovereignty
he Agenda with Steve Paikin, TVO, 23 October 2024.
Canada-India soaring doplomatic relations
Global Focus, RTHK Radio 3, Hong Kong, 17 October 2024.
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.
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.
From chaiwalla to prime minister: Hindu nationalism and Narendra Modi’s rise to power
Critical South podcast, June 4 2024
The Stakes of India’s Election as Modi Seeks Third Term
Menaka Raman-Wilms, The Decibel podcast, The Globe and Mail, 18 April 2024
What’s at Stake in Indian’s Election?
Matt Galloway, The Current, CBC Radio, 23 April 2024
Inde: cinq enjeux au cœur de la plus grosse élection du monde
Ximena Sampson, Radio Canada, 19 April 2024
The India-Canada Conundrum
Grand Tamasha, Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, Washington, D.C., and the Hindustan Times, 07 November 2023
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.
How does confrontation with India fit in with Canada’s Indo-Pacific “pivot”?
The Hindu, 10 October 2023
On the Canada-India diplomatic row (CBCS)
CBC 99.9FM, 20 September 2023
On the Canada-India diplomatic row (CBLA)
CBC Radio One 99.1FM, 3 October 2023
On the Canada-India diplomatic row (CBS News)
Andrew Nichols, CBC News Network, 20 September 2023
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)
The Shock of the New|The Year 1947: Fractures and Tectonic Shifts
CBC Ideas, 4 November 2022
Is democracy western or universal?
The OpenCanada Podcast #6, 21 January 2022
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
Canada-India relationship hits low point as policy differences at G20 summit overshadow trade
Neil Moss, The Hill Times, 13 September 2023
What the G20 summit revealed about the Modi Trudea relationship
David Moscrop, GZero, 14 September 2023
India raises concerns over diplomatic security, wants Canadian missions ‘better secured’
Niel Moss, The Hill Times, 24 May 2023
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
Three ways to fix the Canadian electoral system
Peter Harder, Policy Options, 2 November 2022
Punjabi voters demand candidates take a stand on Indian farmers’ movement
Uday Rana, The Globe and Mail, 18 September 2021
Charity and good intentions will not end the Covid-19 pandemic
Madhukar Pai, Forbes, 23 September 2021
Canada needs to fulfill its promises on vaccines and become part of the solution
Shashika Bandara, McGill Perspectives on Global Health, 16 November 2021
India's surprise about-face on farming laws a 'monumental moment' for diaspora in Canada
Shanifa Nasser, CBC News, 19 November 2021
Why India's failure to take a hard stance on Russia could backfire
Chris O'Neill Yates, CBC News, 10 March 2022
Indian envoy hopes to see interim trade deal with Canada finalized in ‘about a year’
Neil Moss, The Hill Times, 24 March 2022