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Ravi Shankar Prasad

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's law and justice minister. How can a Hindi nationalist government deal with rising populism and growing communal tensions?

HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's law and justice minister. There are growing concerns that India, the world's most populous democracy, is in the grip of a divisive brand of populism. The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, leads a Hindu nationalist government in a country with more than two hundred million non-Hindu citizens and communal tensions seem to be rising. Could India be facing its darkest hour since independence?

30 minutes

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Tue 17 Jul 2018 21:30GMT

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Presenter Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest Ravi Shankar Prasad

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