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Essay
(publication on 14 January)
11,5 × 19,5 / 256 pages env. / approx. 21 €
Dans la tête de Narendra Modi
[Inside the Mind of Narendra Modi]

For the last decade, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi has been at the helm of the world’s third largest economy, which will soon be the most populous place on Earth with 1.425 billion inhabitants. But how much is known about his governance style, his evident paranoia, his private life, his phobia of the press, the roots of his ideology, his personality cult, the drivers of his popularity, and the workings of his party machine? Far from being a hero, for many Indians he is a far-right, xenophobic leader who espouses a supremacist ideology and constitutes a threat to civil liberties and minorities in his country. And he is intending to run for a third term in the spring of 2024.
Sophie LANDRIN & Guillaume DELACROIX 

Sophie Landrin is a journalist and has been Le Monde’s correspondent in Delhi since 2019. Her fellow journalist Guillaume Delacroix was a correspondent in Mumbai from 2013 to 2021 for Mediapart and then Le Monde and Courrier international.
© DR