Is India Losing Its Claim to Being a Democracy?
Historian Ramachandra Guha explains how Narendra Modi is eroding real people power.
For years now, scholars in this magazine and elsewhere have tracked the decline of democracy in countries around the world. Markers for this reversal of people power include erosions of freedom of the press and human rights as well as the rise of leaders with authoritarian tendencies.
Ravi Agrawal is the editor in chief of Foreign Policy. Twitter: @RaviReports
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