First, a country can claim to be a democracy (India is the “world’s largest,” according to Western leaders). Second, elections offer a cover of legitimacy to Modi: The people’s mandate ...

“We are a democracy... India and America both have democracy in our DNA. Democracy is in our spirit, and we live it. It’s written in our Constitution. So, no question of discrimination on the ...

Anti-Hindu riots broke out in response in Pakistan and Bangladesh, India’s Muslim neighbors. A Newsweek cover famously warned ... Rhetoric about democracy papered over policies advanced by ...

“Democracy is a memory (in India),” Gandhi later tweeted, describing the dramatic photographs that showed him and his party leaders being briefly detained by police. Gandhi’s statement was ...

Within hours, Saibaba was flown out of Delhi and taken to the remote Aheri Police Station on the border between Maharashtra and Chhattisgarh, in central India ... But in an 827-page judgment ...

When I moved to New Delhi in 2009 to work as a foreign correspondent, there was already a decade’s worth of magazine covers heralding ... populous democracy. A spokesman for India’s foreign ...

In July, several broadcast outlets used a similar caption — Flood Jihad — to cover ... Democracy Dies in Darkness” — some called it “ominous” and “heavy-handed.” But in India ...

Fortunately, if he fails, India’s democracy is more than capable of holding him to account. For subscribers only: to see how we design each week’s cover, sign up to our weekly Cover Story ...