New Delhi, May 18 -- India has not updated how political power is distributed across its states in five decades-and the consequences are mounting. At the heart of delimitation lies a fundamental tension: Should representation follow population, or preserve a delicate federal balance? Successive governments chose to defer the question, freezing India's electoral map even as demographic divides deepened. The Modi government's recent push to overhaul the system brought these tensions into the open but ultimately failed to resolve them. In the wake of the government's failed legislative efforts, economist and legal scholar Shruti Rajagopalan appeared on a recent episode of Grand Tamasha, a weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy coproduced...