Narendra Modi 'a Textbook Autocrat with Totalitarian Goals” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hxvlBqsSD4 The Wire
May 20, 2024
Radha Kumarr latest book, The Republic Relearnt: Renewing Indian Democracy (1947-2024) .
Modi could be more dangerous than ordinary authoritarian rulers. She says: “Authoritarians whose dominant interest is personal power are less dangerous to democracy than those with a long-term and far-reaching agenda … their grip on power is more difficult to shake … the Modi administration falls into the latter category.”
However, Radha Kumar makes clear that, as things stand, India has not become a totalitarian state but is well on the way to becoming one. This is a process that is happening quietly and, even, silently without the recognition it should have got.
Radha Kumar spells out in detail the values and principles of the Indian constitution that have either been jettisoned or, at least, ignored by the Modi government since it first came to power in 2014. Radha Kumar spells out the signposts which she believes indicate that India is in the process of becoming a new republic i.e. the second republic.