How Biased Media Is Undermining Human Rights and Democracy in India

‘It is election time in five of India’s states. In at least two of the five, it’s a telling time for the regime at the center, headed by the autocratic Narendra Modi. Not only will his much-hailed charisma and direct connection with the voters be evaluated when the results are finally declared on March 11, but the disastrous de-monetization move that crushed India’s informal, cash-driven economy, took over 150 lives and raised serious questions of the economic salience of Modi’s policy making, will be tested.
Today, Modi’s party, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is the political face of the supremacist Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS). It does not control the government of Uttar Pradesh, which determines sugar cane prices, education and health policies that are the source of many local woes. The much-touted ‘development dream’ that Modi ‘sold’ to significant sections of India’s electorate has fizzled out into just that—a pipe dream.’
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