American news magazine TIME has put Prime Minister Narendra Modi on its cover for its May 20, 2019 edition. Titled ‘India’s divider in chief’, the magazine asked if India can endure five more years of his government.
TIME’s new international cover: Can the world’s largest democracy endure another five years of a Modi government? https://t.co/fTBGDwq06E pic.twitter.com/1Oxu3EEnNb
— TIME (@TIME) May 10, 2019
TIME’s articles on Modi come as India’s Lok Sabha election enters its home stretch, with just two polling phases left before votes are counted on May 23.
In the cover story ‘Can the World’s Largest Democracy Endure Another Five Years of a Modi Government?’ journalist Aatish Taseer talks about rising populism in democracies like Turkey, Brazil, Britain, the US and India.
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The article is also critical of the the opposition, which it calls a ‘weak’, ‘ragtag’ coalition; it says the Congress has little to offer than the dynastic principle and describes Rahul Gandhi as ‘an unteachable mediocrity’.
In 2015, Modi had appeared on TIME cover when the magazine had done an exclusive interview with him after he became the Prime Minister.
