• Thursday, April 25, 2024

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Amartya Sen criticises Modi on currency crisis

Amartya Sen is not Modi’s greatest fan

By: Eastern Eye Staff

The BBC is starting to cover the demonetisation crisis in a way that should cause concern to the Indian government – and its supporters in the UK – for its carries echoes of the way it reported Indira Gandhi’s emergency of 1975 and Sanjay Gandhi’s subsequent sterilisation campaign. In other words, it is hinting to listeners in Britain and around the world that what has happened could have electoral consequences for Narendra Modi’s government. It was not just that Amartya Sen, not known to be Modi’s greatest fan, was interviewed last week on BBC Radio 4s The World Tonight but…

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