We have a situation where we are talking about one nation, one language, one election. But actually we are in a situation where you have one dictator, one corporation.

– Arundhati Roy

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    it would be foolhardy for you to think that a process in which a country of 1.4 billion people that used to be a flawed democracy – and is now falling into a kind of, well, I can only use the word fascism – is not going to affect the rest of the world, you’re extremely wrong. What I say wouldn’t be a cry for help. It would be to say, “Look around at what you are, what you are actually helping to create.” There was a moment in time in 2002 after the anti-Muslim Gujarat massacre – in which intelligence reports by countries like the UK actually held Modi responsible for what they called ethnic cleansing. Modi was banned from travelling to the US, but all of that is forgotten now. But he’s the same man. And every time somebody allows him this kind of oxygen and this kind of space to pirouette and claim that only he could have brought these powerful people to India, that message magnified a thousand-fold by our servile new channels, it feeds into a kind of collective national insecurity, sense of inferiority and false vanity. It’s blown up into something else that’s extremely dangerous and that people should understand is not going to just be a problem for India.

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    Biden and macron seem to be willing to appease Modi in the name of economic stability and growth in these uncertain times, but is it really worth it?

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        It’s not really about power, it’s about leveraging Modi’s spat with China in order to stabilize Western economic markets at a critical moment. That affects everyone.