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Narendra Modi: India’s authoritarian leader with his own app

World fifth-biggest economy’s direction of travel under cult-of-personality leadership is a growing cause for concern

India’s 14th prime minister, Narendra Modi, is emerging as one of the country’s pivotal post-independence leaders – along with its founding PM Jawaharlal Nehru, who set the template for a secular, democratic nation in 1947, and his daughter Indira Gandhi, who ruled for 15 turbulent years.

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