India’s Poor Will Not Be Wished Away
Poverty remains deeply entrenched in India and appears to have increased significantly, writes Ashoka Mody, despite rosy news from India’s first consumption figures in over a decade.
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Poverty remains deeply entrenched in India and appears to have increased significantly, writes Ashoka Mody, despite rosy news from India’s first consumption figures in over a decade.
The upcoming general election may be the last chance for Indians to pull their country back from the brink of autocracy, writes Shashi Tharoor.
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Violent Hindu nationalism has accelerated at critical moments when putatively secular politicians have used religion to gain an electoral advantage. This process, a century in the making, is now culminating in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s rejection of secularism.
The assassination plots by Indian intelligence in Canada and the United States expose the fragility of a relationship built on shared democratic values.