Modi's India I ARTE Documentary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShCV8LLxWH4

The largest democracy in the world is a patchwork of languages, ethnicities and religions bound together in a secular state. But Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, in power since 2014, seems to imperil this delicate balance.

In India, the Hindu and Muslim dynasties fought for a long time for the control of the peninsula, before British colonisation was imposed. Independence was then marked by the painful split with Pakistan. A conflicting history which did not prevent the country from setting up the "largest democracy in the world", based on universal suffrage, secularism and religious plurality in a country of 1.4 billion inhabitants. But this singular edifice is today endangered by the policy of its new strongman: Narendra Modi, and his establishment of an ethnic Hindu power, which governs at the expense of the Muslim minority, minorities in general and 'a number of checks and balances and freedoms.