Thread by @rbsw

THREAD
What's going on with India's democracy?

Communal tensions intensifying further

- BJP officials accused of insulting Prophet
- Demolitions of Muslim-owned properties
- Hindu monk seen as anti-Muslim radical re-elected in India’s most populous state

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PM Narendra Modi is accused of pushing an anti-Muslim agenda over 2 decades

- US denied him visa over deadly Gujarat riots of 2002 citing “severe violations of religious freedoms”
- UN called his Citizenship Amendment Act “fundamentally discriminatory” against Muslims

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Western leaders are privately worried about what’s happening but reluctant to criticise Modi in public

- Want India on board in democratic pushback against authoritarian China
- Also seeking Indian pivot on Russia
- Some conscious of colonial baggage

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Prominent journalist and Modi critic @HartoshSinghBal:

“India is coming to resemble Russia and China far more than it resembles Western democracies.”

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Can India and the West come together? Or are they on fundamentally different paths?

“The Call of the West”
Part 3 of new DW special series “India’s Dilemma”



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Full DW Special
India's Dilemma

Starts here with Part 1:
Russia Goes Rogue
- How India and Russia became close
- Why India has not condemned Putin's war
- Fears that Russia will now become beholden to China - and what that means for the relationship

Full DW Special
India's Dilemma

Part 2:
The China Threat
- Explaining the world's biggest land dispute
- How China claims an entire Indian state
- China's ties with Pakistan and "string of pearls"

Many comments around this thread suggesting that "India's Dilemma" only features BJP critics and a pro-Western slant.

Watch the videos in full!

Here's a further taste.

India's Dilemma:
Watch in full

Part 1: Russia Goes Rogue

India's Dilemma:
Watch in full

Part 2: The China Threat

India's Dilemma:
Watch in full

Part 3: The Call of the West