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Indian Elections 2024 - The Headlines From Abroad


Indian Elections 2024 - the headlines from abroad

A compilation:

“Will the outcome of India’s election increase intolerance” - Deutsche Welle

“Modification of India is almost complete” - TIME Magazine.

“India’s election: fixing a win by outlawing dissent damages democracy” - UK Guardian

“Is India’s BJP the world’s most ruthlessly efficient political party?” - Financial Times

“‘Messianic spell’: how Narendra Modi created a cult of personality” - UK Guardian

“Narendra Modi Is Preparing New Attacks on Democratic Rights” - Jacobin Magazine

“With democracy under threat in Narendra Modi’s India, how free and fair will this year’s election be?” - The Conversation, Australian Research Council

“India can grow fast with or without Narendra Modi” - Reuters.

“Modi Is Making India’s Election All About Himself” - Bloomberg

“Progressive South Is Rejecting Modi” - Bloomberg

“Modi’s Campaign May Have Already Peaked” - Bloomberg

“‘Billionaire Raj’ Is Pushing India Toward Autocracy” - Bloomberg

“India’s Voting Machines Are Raising Too Many Questions” - Bloomberg

“Modi’s Sledgehammer Politics Are Battering Indian Democracy” - Bloomberg

“Billionaire Press Barons Are Squeezing Media Freedom in India” - Bloomberg

“Indian democracy developed East Asian characteristics—voters are increasingly willing to trade political freedom for economic progress”—Financial Times.

“The ‘mother of democracy’ is not in good shape” - Financial Times.

“Modi’s Temple of Lies” - New York Times

“Mr. Modi has remained deeply popular even as he has become more autocratic. He has paid little price — and even found support — for his effort to remake India into what analysts have called an illiberal democracy.” - New York Times.

“India Democracy in name only” - Le Monde France

“Narendra Modi’s illiberalism may imperil India’s economic progress” - The Economist Magazine.

“The Right to Education and Democratic Backsliding in India” - Verfassunsblog

“Democratic backsliding in India could prompt West to review its cooperation with Delhi” - Chatham House.

“As India goes to the polls, can democracy deliver a better life for all its people? - Behind a veneer of progress, injustice and inequality propped up by corruption and the caste system haunt the subcontinent” - UK Guardian

“India’s elections this year stand out for their ‘undemocratic nature’ - Modi is turning democracy into electoral authoritarianism.” - Le Monde France.

“Modi’s ‘Make in India’ Didn’t Make Jobs” - Foreign Policy Magazine

“India’s middle class warm to autocracy under Modi” - The Press, New Zealand

“Two-thirds of Indians back autocracy as Modi eyes third term” - UK Times.

“Indian Democracy in Peril: Slide into Autocracy Likely to Continue” - Nippon Japan

“US should not normalize Modi’s autocratic and illiberal India” Modi’s - UK Guardian.

“Why is Biden silent on Modi and India’s slide toward autocracy?” - LA Times

“As India rises, can the West steer Modi away from autocracy?” - UK Times

“India’s democratic regression - The autocratic bent of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is clear” - LeMonde France.

“Authoritarian drift in the world’s largest democracy” - The Informant New Zealand

“Faced with Modi’s authoritarian drift, is India still the largest democracy in the world?” - Actual News Magazine London

“Modi’s party using ‘authoritarian playbook’ to cripple opposition in India” - UK Independent

“Narendra Modi regime suppresses freedoms” - La Croix International Catholic News.

“What Has Happened to the Rule of Law in India?” - The Atlantic Magazine

“The Tragedy Of India’s Authoritarian Descent” - The Bullet Socialist Project

“Modi’s India has become less liberal” - Chatham House.

“India is the future of the authoritarian internet” - The Daily Dot Austin Texas.

“Increasing Authoritarianism in India under Narendra Modi” - Australian Institute of International Affairs

“Narendra Modi Is Developing a New Template for Authoritarian Control of the Internet” - Jacobin Magazine

“India’s authoritarian leader with his own app” - The Week, USA

“Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government is escalating its attack on civil rights” - UK Guardian.

“Has Modi Pushed Indian Democracy Past Its Breaking Point?” - New Yorker Magazine

“Who Can Stop Modi and His Authoritarian Vision for India?” - Jacobin Magazine

“Freedom of Press is Dealt Deadly Blows by Modi’s Proto-Fascist Regime in India” - Global Policy Journal UK

“Modi’s Personality Cult Has Replaced India’s Democracy” - Foreign Policy Magazine

“Modi’s India Is Where Global Democracy Dies" - New York Times

“Australia’s” Woeful Response to Rising Authoritarianism in India” - Australian Institute of International Affairs.

“Why India’s confidence is growing". - Foreign Policy Australian Financial Review

In India, elections are a matter of faith, and criticism is akin to blasphemy. - Sydney Morning Herald
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