What explains Narendra Modi’s global fandom?

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I have had a longstanding interest in how and why Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s global image as an upholder of the great democratic values remains untarnished in spite of the detailed, vocal and well documented information about his regime’s hostility to Muslims and various other minority constituencies which is widely available. Indeed, this side of Modi has been pointed out by civil rights organisations both in India and the West, more or less since the terrible anti-Muslim attacks of 2002 in Gujarat, when Modi was the state’s chief minister. These anti-minority policies and ideologies have also been a source of...