A nagging doubt plagues world leaders wooing India: whose side is Narendra Modi really on? | Simon Tisdall

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

57% : India's 1.4 billion population - the world's largest - youthful age profile and expanding economy - the fifth biggest - are turning it into a modern Klondike.
55% : The EU hankers after a free trade pact.
53% : Centrally directed partisan policies that aggravate India's north-south divide, disadvantage opposition-run states such as Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and undercut the federal system contribute to this process of disaggregation.
52% : "The facade of triumph and power that Modi has erected obscures a more fundamental truth: that a principal source of India's survival as a democratic country, and of its recent economic success, has been its political and cultural pluralism, precisely those qualities that the prime minister and his party now seek to extinguish.
49% : "Modi has centralised power in his office to an astonishing degree, undermined the independence of public institutions such as the judiciary and the media, [and] built a cult of personality around himself," wrote Krea university's Ramachandra Guha in an excoriating essay.
48% : "The prime minister's central ideological project is the creation of a Hindu nationalist country where non-Hindu people are, at best, second-class citizens," wrote Yale's Sushant Singh.
43% : It treasures its post-independence, non-aligned legacy, and has not forgotten cold war-era Soviet links.
42% : Human Rights Watch accuses it of "systematic discrimination and stigmatisation" of Muslims and others.

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