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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
World
Ben Doherty

Narendra Modi in Australia: a polarising leader meets a divided Indian diaspora

Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi
Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi. There have been calls for Australia to ‘speak frankly’. Photograph: Money Sharma/AFP/Getty Images

The public events speak to Narendra Modi’s popularity among supporters - the adoring crowds waving banners, the car convoys and privately chartered “ModiAirways” flights for those who will travel thousands of kilometres to hear him speak.

But for the same man, posters have sprung up around Sydney – before being torn down – offering $10,000 for the citizen’s arrest of the “Hindu Terrorist Modi” and graffiti has been daubed on a Hindu temple in western Sydney reading: “Declare Modi Terrorist”.

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