Lipin Ram

Our recent paper on Kerala's partisan streets and the role of public space in democracy. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…

How worried are you about your right to speak freely and freedom of expression as a whole? A special @swissinfo_de's issue introduced by @larissambieler and with a contribution by @IHEID research fellow @Welpita bit.ly/3dxpMIC

Is continuity necessarily detrimental to democracy? The south Indian state of Kerala re-elected a government for the first time in history. @LipinRam and David Jenkins examine the arguments for and against democratic alternation in this historic election. bit.ly/3fZK6mj

A degree of ‘instability’ is a necessary virtue of democratic politics; it produces the conditions necessary for revitalised political agency, said @LipinRam and D.Jenkins. I would call it 'uncertainty'. Alternation does not need to produce instability by default.

“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever.” George Orwell DHS uses alert system for first time in a year to warn of domestic-terrorism threat - ABC News apple.news/AyroZOoxdRQ6jx…

An important victory. Not simply because it was against the odds of Kerala's (in)famous anti incumbency factor. In the age of the pandemic, the Kerala government showed the world a model of governance that was pro-people and anti-austerity @AHDCentre . ndtv.com/kerala-news/ke…

From a state government that basically said God save the people from Covid 19. ndtv.com/karnataka-news…

Not a lot of pictures reveal the fundamental violence of the West on black and bown people like these ones. It's good to be reminded once in a while. theguardian.com/australia-news…