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Soumya Shankar

Soumya Shankar

Democracy

In the shadow of Trump’s visit to India, religious violence challenges the official narrative

Updated February 28, 2020 NEW YORK—Addressing more than 100,000 people, the biggest crowd of his political career, at...

Feb 27, 2020
Democracy

How India’s citizenship law and national registry exploit religion to discriminate against Muslims

This story was produced as part of the Democracy Undone reporting fellowship with GroundTruth.  For more than a...

Feb 05, 2020
Season 8 - Democracy Undone |Episode 5

Episode 5: Exploiting Religion in India

In Narendra Modi’s India, to be Indian is to be Hindu. By connecting the national identity to the...

Dec 15, 2019
Special Reports

Democracy Undone: Not everyone has a vote in the world’s largest democracy

Editor's note: Originally published in Foreign Policy, this dispatch by Democracy Undone Fellow Soumya Shankar explores another aspect...

Oct 30, 2019
Democracy

Modi strengthens his grip on power

NEW DELHI — Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the face of the dominant form of Hindu nationalism called Hindutva, won...

May 24, 2019

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