India’s far-right government is focused more on PR than prevention. Brave independent reporters are calling it to account.
Hasan takes a look at exactly how the Hindu nationalist BJP managed to pull off a lopsided win and what it says about Prime Minister Modi’s agenda for the largest democracy in the world
For the first time since 1984, a single party–the rightist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led by Narendra Modi–achieved an outright majority. Modi’s party garnered 282 seats in the Lok Sabha, while the outgoing Congress Party managed to retain a mere 44 seats. Jadaliyya asked Vijay Prashad, professor of International Studies at Trinity College and the outgoing Edward W. Said Chair in American Studies at the American University of Beirut, to comment on this election...
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