Sluggish Consumption Deflates Modi’s High GDP Growth Claims; Great Undocumented Indian Exodus; Documentary Satyagraha Needed
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Snapshot of the day
March 4, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
The Pew Research Center recently released the findings of its survey on the popularity of representative democracy — and authoritarianism — around the world. Among its findings on India are that a majority of respondents (54%) thought elected representatives didn’t care what “people like them” thought; 82% said technocracy was at least somewhat good (a 17-percentage point increase from 2017); 67% thought it was a good thing for a strong leader to be unconstrained by legislative or judicial
