Opinion India Under Modi Is Becoming a Brutal Authoritarian State
Modi's Hindutva populism, backed by naked threats against India's Muslim minority and the suppression of dissent, is crashing India's economy and its democracy
Shrenik Rao
An alumnus of University of Oxford's Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism and the London School of Economics, Shrenik Rao is the Editor-in-chief of the Madras Courier, a 233-year-old newspaper he revived digitally. Twitter: @ShrenikRao
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