Blog: Promoting Students’ Engagement with Formative Essays through Reflexive Learning - Social Policy Association Introduction Formative assessment plays a vital role in fostering students’ academic development and confidence, particularly during the early years of study. The value of formative [...]

Based on my experience of teaching social policy to first year students, I have published this blog narrating my strategies to promote students’ engagement with formative essays.

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In Bihar, BJP is courting upper castes—a clear shift from its 2020 strategy With two parties led by Dalit leaders now part of NDA, the BJP is hopeful of winning a large number of reserved constituencies.

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What Left parties' decision to not join Bihar alliance means for India's Dalits, women, MBCs Top leaders of the Left are English-speaking 'upper' caste elites. And they won't let MLAs become ministers lest they should threaten their elite power.

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Kanshi Ram ran BSP military-style. The problem is Mayawati runs it like a bureaucracy With her leadership style, Mayawati has alienated party members as well as her own support base.

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Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2025 Editor’s Introduction Rahul Mukherji Guest Editors’ Introduction: What Does the 2024 National Election Reveal About India? Neelanjan Sircar and Rahul Verma RESEARCH What Does Voter Turnout Tell Us ...

This special issue of the Journal of Indian Politics & Policy on the Indian National Election 2025 carry my article on Caste in Candidate Nomination.

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My article which talks about how caste as a conceptual category resurfaced in the debate of the 2024 national election is published in the special issue of the Journal of Indian Politics & Policy. The article and special issue can be read here.

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My article which talks about how caste as a conceptual category resurfaced in the debate of the 2024 national election is published in the special issue of the Journal of Indian Politics & Policy. The article and special issue can be read here.

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RJD has an EBC dream in Bihar. It'll take more than tickets & tokenism The Extremely Backward Classes, which make up 36 per cent of Bihar’s population, showed their aversion to RJD in 2020. New EBC state president Mangani Lal Mandal may not be enough to break it.

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Happy to announce publication of my chapter titled ‘Revisiting Liberalism and Neoliberalism- Decolonial Insights and Challenges’ in Routledge Textbook ‘Understanding International Relations- Decolonising the Discipline’.
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I will be in the University of Oxford to present my research paper on the Indian Supreme Court in the Era of Democratic Backsliding.

India’s all-party delegations show a problem with our embassies Reforms are needed in two directions—decolonisation of the structure of Indian embassies, and the promotion of active over passive leadership.

India needs to reform its embassies.

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Based on my teaching experience of UG module on Political Economy, I wrote this chapter in the book titled Global Politics.

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Balancing My MA in International Relations with Motherhood | The Political Studies Association (PSA) As a South Asian student from Pakistan, I embarked on my MA in International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire with high hopes of broadening my knowledge and career opportunities.

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Balancing My MA in International Relations with Motherhood | The Political Studies Association (PSA) As a South Asian student from Pakistan, I embarked on my MA in International Relations at the University of Hertfordshire with high hopes of broadening my knowledge and career opportunities.

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AAP created moral panic among people. And used amoral means to grow AAP is caught up in the structural challenges that new parties face. Its inability to overcome those has made it like other parties.

How India’s new party declined?

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Kejriwal’s SC/ST scholarship scheme is flawed. It lacks intent Arvind Kejriwal, his senior ministers, and AAP leaders are well aware of the financial realities and the nitty-gritty of studying abroad. No wonder the Dr Ambedkar Samman scholarship is faulty.

How to design a scheme so that intended beneficiaries could never get real benefits?

@ArvindKejriwal’s scheme to provide financial assistance to Dalit students for studying abroad is a classical example of this.

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