![]() ![]() But the Hindu nationalism of Modi and his party, the BJP, has hardened along with their will to govern. Narendra Modi became India’s prime minister in 2014, promising economic growth and a respite from the corrupt and calcified Congress Party. ![]() Many blame the country’s autocratic prime minister, Narendra Modi, whose Bharatiya Janata Party, or BJP, advocates Hindu nationalism in contrast to the secular, pluralistic democracy that India’s founders had envisioned. One of our guests today calls the pandemic response in India “the greatest moral failure” of a generation. India has seen a spike in cases this spring, with coronavirus infections approaching 30 million and the death toll having surpassed 350,000, by official estimates. Along the Ganges River in the central Indian city of Prayagraj, a local man performs last rites for a loved one lost to the scourge of covid. ![]()
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