In the FT's Beyond Brics blog, I look at the merits of India's current Westminster system as against a Presidential or PR alternative.

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2014/03/31/india-elections-should-india-go-presidential/#axzz2xXU8ezYQ

For Cafe Dissensus, I join a distinguished group of writers, each of us offering our take on the upcoming 2014 general elections.

http://cafedissensus.com/2014/03/17/the-shadow-of-2004-hangs-over-the-2014-elections/

My latest "Marginalia" for Business Standard looks at new research on how exit polls influence election outcomes. Timely, I hope!

http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/vivek-dehejia-enter-exit-polls-114031700585_1.html

My take on the Doniger book "pulping" controversy in the Mint, February 18, 2014.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/Lgc58R8kUlvDOKl7pyiUoM/Free-speech-and-its-overzealous-defenders.html

In the Business Standard (February 17, 2014), Rupa Subramanya and I argue that incorrect interpretations of elections in 2004 in Andhra Pradesh and at the centre -- wrongly blaming economic reforms -- help explain why there's no true non-sectarian, centre-right party in India today.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/vivek-dehejia-rupa-subramanya-why-no-centre-right-political-party-in-india-today-114021600697_1.html

My latest "Marginalia" column in Business Standard (in print January 21, 2014), looks at middle class revolutions over time and space to cast some light on the Aam Admi Party in India today.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/vivek-dehejia-middle-class-revolutions-again-114012001177_1.html

In the Mint (January 9, 2014), I take a critical look at the rise of the Aam Admi Party in India, both the good and the bad.

http://www.livemint.com/Opinion/XA9HOfJaNxrRwygXweN1NO/One-not-two-cheers-for-AAP.html