Strangers in Their Own Land: Being Muslim in Modi’s India
It is a lonely feeling to know that your country’s leaders do not want you. To be vilified because you are a Muslim in what is now a largely Hindu-first India.
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Canadian Arrests Highlight Alleged Gang Role in India’s Intelligence Operations
Months after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada accused India’s government of plotting a murder on Canadian soil — plunging diplomatic relations between the two countries to their lowest level ever — the first arrests in the killing, which came on Friday, did little to demystify the basis of his claim.
India’s Master of Nostalgia Takes His Sweeping Vision to Netflix
In the small Bombay theater that showed big films, his father brought him — over and over again — to see the biggest of them all.
Why Did Modi Call India’s Muslims ‘Infiltrators’? Because He Could.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, his power at home secured and his Hindu-first vision deeply entrenched, has set his sights in recent years on a role as a global statesman, riding India’s economic and diplomatic rise. In doing so, he has distanced himself from his party’s staple work of polarizing India’s diverse population along religious lines for its own electoral gain.
Modi’s Power Keeps Growing, and India Looks Sure to Give Him More
As he campaigns across India for an election that begins on Friday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks of his insatiable ambitions in terms of dinner-table appetite.
Friday Briefing: India’s Election Begins
Voting begins today in a multistage election in India in which hundreds of millions of people will cast ballots. The election will determine whether their country’s powerful prime minister, Narendra Modi, will stay in office for a third term.
China Had a ‘Special Place’ in Modi’s Heart. Now It’s a Thorn in His Side.
Narendra Modi once looked up to China. As a business-friendly Indian state leader, he traveled there repeatedly to attract investment and see how his country could learn from its neighbor’s economic transformation. China, he said, has a “special place in my heart.” Chinese officials cheered on his march to national power as that of “a political star.”
Modi’s Party Doesn’t Control All of India. But He’s Working on It.
It is the final frontier for India’s most powerful leader in decades.