Modi's India I ARTE Documentary

WATCH: Pakistan: Karachi's Forgotten 'Mad Women' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aN8o2fx0ro The largest democracy in the world is a patchwork of languages, ethnicities and religions bound together in a secular state.  But Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government, in power since 2014, seems to imperil this delicate balance. In India, the Hindu and Muslim dynasties fought for a long time for the control of the peninsula, before British colonisation was imposed. Independence was then marked by the painful split with Pakistan. A conflicting history which did not prevent the country from setting up the "largest democracy in the world", based on universal suffrage, secularism and religious plurality in a country of 1.4 billion inhabitants. But this singular edifice is today endangered by the policy of its new strongman: Narendra Modi, and his establishment of an ethnic Hindu power, which governs at the expense of the Muslim minority, minorities in general and 'a number of checks and balances and freedoms. Available until the 13/04/2021 ARTE Documentary is here to tell you more about what’s going on in the world of culture and current affairs with powerful, refreshing and entertaining docs subtitled in English for our international fans. Discover a whole world on #ARTEdocumentary​​ 💡 Want more from ARTE? Watch more of our programmes on ARTE.tv: ARTE in English 👉 https://www.arte.tv/en/ Subscribe to our Youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVogAsASqbceBmQMi1WA39g You can also find us on: Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ARTE.tv Twitter: https://twitter.com/ARTEen #Modi #NarendraModi #India #ARTEdocumentary


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