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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 201821:30GMT
BBC News Channel except BBC News Latin America, BBC News North America, BBC News UK & BBC News UK HD

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PresenterStephen Sackur
Interviewed GuestRavi Shankar Prasad

Broadcasts

  • Tue 17 Jul 201803:30GMT
    BBC News Channel except BBC News UK & BBC News UK HD
  • Tue 17 Jul 201808:30GMT
    BBC News Channel except BBC News UK & BBC News UK HD
  • Tue 17 Jul 201821:30GMT
    BBC News Channel except BBC News Latin America, BBC News North America, BBC News UK & BBC News UK HD