Achieving consensus at G20, Modi takes global centrestage, can he step across the deepening faultlines at home?

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With the success of the G20 Summit in Delhi, is Narendra Modi making a mark globally as Jawaharlal Nehru did on the world stage after Independence? India’s first prime minister had carved out a niche for the country as the leader of the non-aligned movement even though it was at the time seen as poor and backward. Today, Modi strides on the global stage at the head of the world’s fifth largest economy. Not long ago, Karan Singh, who had worked with every prime minister, compared Modi to Nehru. “(I suspect) he will never admit this but he would like...