Modi

Use of force against millions of protesting farmers will destroy Indian secularism

More than 263-million cultivators and labourers have joined the rights movement against the Modi government’s laws that will push people further into poverty

Azhar Azam

5 min read

Going viral: The tremors of the coronavirus pandemic will hit India’s economy, which is shot through with fault lines that have deepened since it began to liberalise its economy in the early 1990s. People in Mumbai line up outside a store to buy groceries following the announcement of a government-imposed nationwide lockdown as a preventive measure. (Indranil Mukherjee/AFP/Getty Images)

BHARATIYA JANATA PARTY

26 MAR 2020

Surviving Covid-19 – and Modi

A religious and nationalist agenda has replaced the promise of development and left India ill-equipped to manage the pandemic

Alf Gunvald Nilsen

8 min read