How can a nation curb polarisation? Lessons India can take from Germany

But despite a strong affective politics determining the course of one of the strongest European countries today, Germany continues to escape polarisation - a lesson India and other countries can benef

Socialising in the old East German town of Halle ahead of the 2017 elections, it was easier to momentarily forget the strong anti-immigrant sentiment, representative for this part of Germany. Instead, the focus was on other factors that appeared to be derailing Angela Merkel’s long and stable governance.

A self-assured, non-German white male scholar mansplained to us the prevailing mood: an unemployed man in Dresden thinks Angela Merkel wants to be a world leader. But he wants a German leader who can resolve his immediate problems.

Like many countries in Europe, Germany too has been embroiled in the anti-immigration and