Opinion | Indian Democracy Isn’t Dead After All (Gift Article)

Picked up this author’s book Malevolent Republic today. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

Sound familiar? "Instead, he has delivered a self-venerating, incompetent and malevolent Hindu-first [substitute America-1st] regime, in which the superrich have become an entrenched oligarchy that [...] is, in effect, in command of the economy. Joblessness is rife, especially among the young."

Putin, Trump, Netanyahu, Modi etc. The day is coming when all of these self-interested, pathetically sensitive sociopaths will be swept away. Then it'll be on all of us to seize the moment and build back a better world. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

India: The World’s Largest Democracy Gets a Second Chance. What are the youth protests about? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

And hopefully the #student #cockroach movement will catch on in #Turkey, #China, #Russia and the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o... #protests #modi #india #trump #politics

Poland, Hungary, now India - are we entering a period in which autocrats and oligarchs are losing their footing, a time of “democratic upsliding”? The World’s Largest Democracy Gets a Second Chance www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o...

"the man who once claimed to be an “instrument for God,” endowed with divine energy, has been spectacularly humbled. ... Young Indians have handed the world’s largest democracy another chance at survival." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/o... #modi #CJP