India will overtake China as the world’s most populous nation by the middle of this year, according to United Nations data. Alongside its population of 1.4 billion, India’s geopolitical and economic footprint is also growing. But as Fred de Sam Lazaro reports, fears are mounting that it’s all coming at the cost of the liberal democracy the country has enjoyed since independence in 1947.
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