Modi congratulates Lawrence Wong on re-election

PM Modi with his Singapore counterpart Lawrence Wong. File | Photo Credit: PTI Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday (May 4, 2025) congratulated Lawrence Wong on his resounding victory in the general election in Singapore and said he looks forward to continuing working closely with him. Prime Minister Lawrence Wong and his ruling People’s Action…

The mechanics of crowd control: anticipation, preparation, prevention

In his 1997 book ‘Dominance Without Hegemony’, historian Ranajit Guha recounted how Mahatma Gandhi, “perhaps India’s foremost ideologue of self-discipline”, created an “elaborate” set of rules about how people should behave around him as they travelled the country. To Gandhi, Guha wrote, a haphazard crowd was “unmanageable”, “uncontrollable”, “undisciplined”, and ultimately entailed a “mobocracy”. Gandhi…