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India’s friends must not remain silent over the growing democratic deficit

ndia has many things going for it these days but the growing authoritarianism of prime minister Narendra Modi’s rightwing Hindu nationalist government is not one of them. The economy has rebounded faster than most after Covid-19, say the IMF and the World Bank. Annual GDP is projected

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