PREVIEW: #INDIA: Conversation with colleague Sadanand Dhume of AEI and WSJ regarding the ongoing seven-week Indian election -- and exploring the reasons behind the absence of corruption stories in a country where jokes about corrupt politicians needing a
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🗓️ 1 May 2024
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1862 India
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now wherever |
| 0:26.7 | you listen to podcasts. This is John Bachelor. India. |
| 0:34.0 | The elections are underway. |
| 0:36.0 | They last seven weeks were not even at the midpoint. |
| 0:39.0 | Sadden Andoumei of the American Enterprise Institute in the Wall Street Journal. He writes a column about the |
| 0:45.1 | subcontinent. Answers the question, why is the Modi B.J.P. not charged with corruption. Where is the corruption? routine. Previous |
| 0:56.4 | governments have all kinds, especially the Congress Party that was replaced by |
| 1:00.5 | Modi government. Why not? It has a peculiar answer. Why not corruption in the |
| 1:07.1 | newspaper? Why Modi so understood to be clean of corruption. |
| 1:13.4 | Why, why, why? |
| 1:14.4 | Saturday and Dumay, there's much more about the election. |
| 1:18.2 | This is an answer to why no corruption on the front pages? |
| 1:23.2 | More of this tonight. |
| 1:24.6 | Now, the point I'm making is that Modi seems to be untouched by scandal. |
| 1:30.4 | Why is that? |
| 1:31.8 | If you ask his supporters, they'll say because he's a really clean guy, you know, he doesn't have a family, he doesn't, he has not lined his pockets. |
| 1:39.0 | If you talk to the opposition, they'll point out that one of the things that's happened is that the media |
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