Modi’s authoritarianism will make relations with India harder to handle
It would be a tragedy with adverse implications for the West if India’s struggle for internal harmony were to founder on the rocks of majoritarian elective autocracy.
By June 4, Narendra Modi will almost certainly be elected for a third five-year term as India’s prime minister.
The increasing centrality of India to Australia’s world view is a given. It is less certain that managing our future dealings with India will be straightforward.
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John McCarthy is a former ambassador to Vietnam, the United States, Indonesia and Japan, a high commissioner to India, and a senior adviser to Asialink.
