{"id":44970,"date":"2022-05-29T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/29\/tory-devotion-to-dear-friend-modi-says-much-about-needy-post-brexit-britain"},"modified":"2022-05-29T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T06:00:03","slug":"tory-devotion-to-dear-friend-modi-says-so-much-about-needy-post-brexit-britain-nick-cohen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44970","title":{"rendered":"Tory devotion to \u2018dear friend\u2019 Modi says so much about needy post-Brexit Britain | Nick Cohen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s abhorrent domestic policies are of no interest to this desperate government<\/p>\n<p>Narendra Modi and the Hindutva right are turning the world\u2019s largest democracy into the world\u2019s ugliest democracy. Muslims are denied the security of full citizenship. The independence of the Indian courts, the civil service, the electoral system and the media has been horribly compromised as the Bharatiya Janata party creates, if not a one-party state, then at least a state where only one party can win.<\/p>\n<p>Far from criticising Modi, or maintaining a diplomatic distance, Britain\u2019s Conservative government is endorsing Modi\u2019s policies and prejudices.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/may\/29\/tory-devotion-to-dear-friend-modi-says-much-about-needy-post-brexit-britain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s abhorrent domestic policies are of no interest to this desperate governmentNarendra Modi and the Hindutva right are turning the world\u2019s largest democracy into the world\u2019s ugliest democracy. Muslims are denied the security of full citizenship. T&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3095,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[531,904,62,433,4,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boris-johnson","category-conservatives","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-politics","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3095"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44971,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44970\/revisions\/44971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}