Modi’s Perilous Embrace of Hindu Extremists
Submitted by newsman on Thu, 23/03/2017 - 14:14https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/opinion/mr-modis-perilous-embrace-of-....
By THE EDITORIAL BOARDMARCH 23, 2017.
Since he was elected in 2014, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India has played a cagey game, appeasing his party’s hard-line Hindu base while promoting secular goals of development and economic growth. Despite worrying signs that he was willing to humor Hindu extremists, Mr. Modi refrained from overtly approving violence against the nation’s Muslim minority.