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Snapshot of the day

December 21, 2023

Pratik Kanjilal

The ‘full’ Financial Times interview of Narendra Modi is out and there is sadly nothing much to read despite the newspaper publishing an article that runs to nearly 3000 words of which Modi’s words form less than a sixth. Actually, those may not have even been his words since the newspaper described its interaction as “a rare