Prime Minister Narendra Modi had a bad day on the global stage with an ace investor and a leading business magazine separately calling out his government as a threat to the open society and to the survival of the biggest democracy in the world. In an address to the World Economic Forum at Davos, Hungarian-born billionaire financier George Soros said the biggest setback to an open society as a result of the surging tide of nationalism had occurred in India. How Modi is endangering the world’s biggest democracy.” The cover shows a lotus, the BJP’s election symbol, sitting on a barbed wire fence. At Davos, Soros slammed several dictatorial world leaders who, he said, were riding a wave of nationalism that he described as “the greatest enemy of open society”. It also said the Modi government was planning to build detention camps — the barbed wire on the cover evoking the border — where that stateless population may be held.

Source: The Telegraph January 24, 2020 21:32 UTC