By: Pramod Thomas IN his first official visit to India, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday (28) issued a veiled warning about Indian democracy backsliding. Blinken told civil society groups — his first appointment before meeting Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Modi — that the US and India are "connected by shared values" such as rule of law and freedom of religion. But he added: "Both of our democracies are works in progress... As I said before, sometimes that process is painful. Sometimes it's ugly. But the strength of democracy is to embrace it." "At a time of…
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