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Hi, I'm Ravi Agrawal, foreign policies editor-in-chief. This is FP Live.

Welcome to the show. Every single time India has a national election, it's the world's biggest

ever. And so it is this week as India kicks off a voting period that will last for 44 days.

Polls strongly suggest India's current Prime Minister

Narendra Modi will return to power. After all, he has a 78% approval rating, higher than any

leader in the world. Assuming he does win, what does it mean for Indian politics and economics,

and what does it mean for New Delhi's foreign policy?

Those questions are the subject of FP's new spring issue. It's got some terrific essays in there,

and we've linked to all of them in the show notes. You'll see an essay by Modi's former chief

economic advisor, who looks at whether India can become the next China, another growth

miracle. There's a profile of India's foreign minister, a man who has ensured New Delhi is friendly

with Washington while buying a lot of oil from Moscow. There's also an essay on India's Gen Z and how

they are thinking about their prospects under Modi and much more.

I wrote an essay too.

It's called The New Idea of India.

And the point of it is to raise a provocation.

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