Le Monde: Was wird aus der „größten“ Demokratie der Welt?

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The new edition of Le Monde diplomatique: India - Modi and the color of power. taz Asia editor Sven Hansen on the country's authoritarian development in the taz Talk at the Leipzig Book Fair.

India is the world's most populous democracy and, alongside China, is regarded as the most important emerging world power. However, under the rule of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), the country has undergone an authoritarian development since 2014.

The taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair
Program overview
Where: Hall 5 | G500
Leipzig Book Fair

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The nationalist Hindutva ideology spread by the government propagates the establishment of a Hindu state and stands for a homogeneous national identity. The Muslim minority in the country (around 170 million people, or 14% of the population) suffers most from this.

Muslims are victims of police violence, hate crimes and discrimination. With his policies, Modi is endangering the cohesion of Indian society, which is characterized by major regional and cultural differences.

So what next for the world's largest democracy? LMd editor Jakob Farah talks about this with Sven Hansen, long-time Asia editor at taz.

Edition Le Monde diplomatique: India - Modi and the color of power - a taz Talk in the taz Studio at the Leipzig Book Fair with:

🐾 Sven Hansen has been Asia editor at taz since 1997 and regularly travels to the region. He is co-editor of the new LMd edition on India. He already published the first LMd edition on India in 2010 and was responsible for two on China (2007 and 2018) and one each on Afghanistan (2015) and Southeast Asia (2023).

Jakob Farah has been an editor and author at the German edition of Le Monde diplomatique since 2010. He is the editor of the LMd editions "Turkey. Gezi, Gülen, dreams of great power" (2021) and "Israel and Palestine" (2017).

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