Bludgeoned, Idea of India needs rescuing

February 18, 2019 11:07

In the end, it ceased to quite matter which side lost and which won the evening. Resonating insistently above the feisty jousting between combatants was the suzerainty of the Idea of India as a pluralist, inclusive, secular democracy. But alongside prevailed a rider to it too -- the sense that the Idea had been bullied and bludgeoned during the Narendra Modi years and needed urgent rescuing. Read more

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