Oxford Debate: Is India’s Democracy Under Threat?

May 4, 2022 — Christophe Jaffrelot, senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS; Vidya Venkat, doctoral researcher in the Department of Anthropology at SOAS University of London; Debasish Roy Chowdhury, Indian journalist, writer, and editor; and Tripurdaman Singh, British academy postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London are debating whether India can still be considered free in the face of legal discriminatory practices against minorities and limiting acts of civil liberties like press or academic freedom. Asia Society Switzerland Executive Director Nico Luchsinger moderated this Oxford Debate. (57 min., 58 sec.)

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