S IXTEEN MONTHS ago Narendra Modi looked chastened. Having just lost his majority in a national election, the chest-thumping ...
In the end it was not quite the landslide mandate that incumbent Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had anticipated or that exit polls had predicted.
The Indian voter has confounded expectations again. A decade ago, when Narendra Modi swept to power with an outright majority in parliament, a quarter-century of messy coalition politics came to an ...