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Arundhati Roy on India’s Elections: “A Mockery of What Democracy Is Supposed to Be” - The New Republic

Arundhati Roy on India’s Elections: “A Mockery of What Democracy Is Supposed to Be”  The New Republic

“In India,” Arundhati Roy wrote in 2002, “if you are a butcher or a genocidist who happens to be a politician, you have every reason to be optimistic.” Roy was referring to Narendra Modi, the then-chief minister of Gujarat who had been implicated in the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in the state that killed at least 1,000 people. Modi has always maintained his innocence—implausibly so, in many eyes—but Roy’s assessment of his future proved prescient. Following India’s latest elections, which Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won with an unprecedented landslide on a brazen message of Hindu suprem...



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