Narendra Modi: Why India's leader is being courted by the West

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🗓️ 3 July 2023

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Narendra Modi has been doing the rounds on the international stage – most recently meeting US president Joe Biden in Washington, where he received a 21-gun salute during his visit. India's prime minister is also currently negotiating a free trade deal with the UK, after securing one with Australia last year.

But India's prime minister has been criticised at home for censorship, concerns about the country's human rights record and embracing far right nationalism. So, why is the West courting Narendra Modi?

On the Sky News Daily, Niall Paterson takes a deep dive to explore the man himself, his power and his country as he is joined by our India reporter Neville Lazarus and professor Kate Sullivan de Estrada, who is director of the contemporary South Asian studies programme at the University of Oxford.

Annie Joyce – senior podcast producer
Sydney Pead - podcast producer
Simon Windsor - archive researcher
Danielle Weekes-Chilufya – editor

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1:01.4	Today on the podcast, we're doing something a little different.
1:05.5	Narendra Modi is a name that you'll have been hearing more and more of lately.
1:09.6	He is, of course, Prime Minister of India,
1:12.0	which itself recently overtook China as the world's most populous nation with more than 1.4 billion
1:19.2	people. And thanks to India's place in the world, its literal point on the map, as much as it's
1:25.1	standing, its economy and so on, the West, while it's
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