PM Modi signals key moves in long game – overseas and at home

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's extensive conversation with podcaster Lex Fridman, released last Sunday, caught eyeballs not just because the MIT researcher was an unusual choice for an interviewer — the PM does not do anything without careful deliberation — it was also unprecedented as it lasted for more than three hours. Some of the challenges the PM faces today on the global stage and nationally — and the podcast pointed to them — come from the Right, quite ironic since he has represented a rightward shift in Indian politics. Like other heads of government, Modi too has to contend with…