Indias Democracy Under Modi
On March 23, 2023, an Indian court found Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s principal opposition leader, Rahul Gandhi, guilty of defaming the Prime Minister and the Modi surname. He was sentenced to two years in prison and expelled from Parliament in what journalists and pro-democracy groups view as yet another inflection point of democratic decline under Modi\u2019s leadership.
To understand the challenges facing Indian society and the current deterioration of India\u2019s democracy, Lawfare Legal Fellow Saraphin Dhanani sat down with Debasish Roy Chowdhury an Indian journalist based in Hong Kong and Calcutta, who has written extensively on Indian politics, society, and geopolitics. He co-authored a book titled \u201cTo Kill a Democracy: India\u2019s Passage to Despotism,\u201d which paints a chilling history and reality of the state of Indian democracy. They discussed the Rahul Gandhi case, the spillover of Hindu nationalism into mainstream politics under Modi\u2019s leadership, and the future of India\u2019s democracy.
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