India’s election results a rebuke of Modi’s vision for the country

The polls said Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party would win big, the media followed suit, and pundits began writing about the impending demise of India’s democracy. They were all wrong.

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, centre, at a campaign event in April. Modi revealed in a pre-election TV interview that when he was born he ‘was convinced God had sent me.’ Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

June 6, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—“Pride goeth before a fall,” says the Old Testament, so India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi was just begging for humiliation. It duly arrived.

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