As scholars well know, conferences and events are a great place to kickstart conversations that might crystallize later into research and publication. That was certainly the case when Louise Tillin (King's College London) and Milan Vaishnav (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) joined us in Geneva for our October 2025 Democracy Week panel on Remapping Political Power in India.

Almost a year later, the ideas discussed at the event have turned into a timely publication co-authored among others by the panelists: Delimitation After Defeat: India's Unfinished Debate Over Representation (Carnegie Endowment, May 2026). The article examines one of India's most consequential democratic challenges: redrawing the parliamentary map to restore the principle of equal voting rights while strengthening the federal balance and ensuring that women's representation remains meaningful.