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The liberals who loved and lost Narendra Modi | The Caravan

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We’re glad this article found its way to you. If you’re not a subscriber, we’d love for you to consider subscribing—your support helps make this journalism possible. Either way, we hope you enjoy the read. Click to subscribe: subscribing “INDIAN DEMOCRACY IS not just in crisis,” Pratap Bhanu Mehta announced from a lectern at the India Today Conclave in early March, “but there is a deep, deep diminishing of hope at this juncture compared to five years ago or perhaps ten years ago.” Mehta was impassioned, delivering his verdict on a half-decade of the rule of Narendra Modi. “The last five years have been a mutilation of the Indian soul,” he said. “They stand for everything that is un-Indian,” and “against every promise that this democracy gave to each one of its citizens.” “All the big repositories of hope we had accumulated over the last ten [or] fifteen years—India is at the cusp of structural transformation, India will, in a sense, reach a new stratosphere of growth and

The liberals who loved and lost Narendra Modi | The Caravan Politics / Essay Political Affairs The liberals who loved Modi Sadanand Dhume, Ashutosh Varshney, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gurcharan Das (clockwise from left) shielded Narendra Modi from detractors and doomsayers on his way to the prime minister’s office. Today they have joined the ranks of those they once pilloried. Sadanand Dhume, Ashutosh Varshney, Pratap Bhanu Mehta and Gurcharan Das (clockwise from left) shielded Narendra Modi from detractors and doomsayers on his way to the prime minister’s office. Today they have joined the ranks

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