“What does this New India wooed by Modi, and his new friends in the East alike, mean for the Indian at home? Is it even real, let alone viable? Or is it the sign of a dying India, the poor, reluctant and yet very real India which Modi eschews in all his diplomatic games abroad? Developments in the country over the past three years point increasingly in the latter direction.”
In an online op-ed published for The Wire, Research Fellow Nisha Mathew provides her analysis on the matter.