The crackdown against thewire_in is 'yet one more example of Modi's regime trying to undermine the media landscape and, indeed, destroy dissenting media' in India, writes C.J. Polychroniou.
Freedom of Press is Dealt Deadly Blows by Modi's Proto-Fascist Regime in India
The Wire case is yet one more example of Modi's regime trying to undermine the media landscape and, indeed, destroy dissenting media.Since the end of the Cold War, hybrid political regimes have been steadily gaining ground across the world. Hybrid regimes rest on a form of governance which, as Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way pointed out in a 2002, is essentially authoritarian in nature while"using formal democratic institutions" for"obtaining and exercising political authority.
Narendra Modi's India is a classic example of a comparative authoritarian regime, though it tends to receive far less attention in western media than Hungary under Viktor Orban's rule. Modi, who has been the head of an elected government for over 20 years, has in fact turned India into an autocracy under the aegis of an extremist nationalist/racist/fascist ideology, Hindutva, which seeks to transform a secular state into an ethno-religious state.
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