This essay, on the turmoil in India and its lessons for the rest of th world, was my Observer column this week. (The column included also a short piece on conservative snowflakes.) It was published on 12 January 2020, under the headline ‘It’s tempting to see India as a place apart. But it offers lessons for us all’. It’s the ‘largest democracy in the world’. It’s also one of the most fragile, one in which dissent has often been curtailed and […]

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