Guha, Ramachandra <br/><br/>
India’s feet of clay: How Modi’s supremacy will hinder his country’s rise 

 - Foreign Affairs   
 - 103(3), Mar-Apr, 2024: p.58-73    
<br/><br/> This spring, India is scheduled to hold its 18th general election. Surveys suggest that the incumbent, Prime minister Narendra Modi, is very likely to win a third term in office. That triumph will further underline Modi’s singular stature. He bestrides the country like a colossus, and he promise Indians that they, too, are rising in the world. And yet the very nature of Modi’s authority, the aggressive control sought by the prime minister and his party over a staggeringly diverse and complicated country, threatens to scupper India’s great power ambitions. A leader of enormous charisma from a modest background Modi dominates the Indian political landscape as only two of his 15 pre-decessors have done: Jawaharlal Nehru, prime minister from Indian Independence in 1947 until 1964 and Nehru’s daughter, Indira, Gandhi, prime minister  from 1966 to 1977 and then again from 1980 to 1984. – Reproduced