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    • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      India’s creeping clampdown on free expression

      The raids on the BBC are part of a troubling global picture for media rights

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      Opposition targets country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata party over crisis at conglomerate run by leader’s ally

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      India plots digital diplomacy push during G20 presidency

      New Delhi hopes to use role to champion domestic tech such as its payments system overseas

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      Shah Rukh Khan’s Bollywood blockbuster meets India’s culture wars

      Hardline Hindu nationalists have made the actor a target for harassment

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      A clamorous public square has long been a point of national pride. But the pressure on unfettered speech is palpable

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      Popular Front of India, set up to counter majority Hindu nationalism, outlawed for five years

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      Gulf states condemn India’s ruling BJP over insults to Islam

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      Critics claim ruling BJP has tacitly encouraged hardline Hindu groups while clamping down on Muslim communities

    • Friday, 22 April, 2022
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      Historian Romila Thapar: ‘There’s always been this feeling in India that Russia is misunderstood’

      The great chronicler of India’s past on Narendra Modi, what Mahatma Gandhi told her — and her country’s attitude to the war in Ukraine

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