politics
Why a Highhanded Security Response to a Political Challenge Reveals Modi’s Loss of Authority
Rather than projecting strength, deploying thousands of yellow police barricades and loudspeakers blaring threats all over the national capital signals panic in the government. However, as Hannah Arendt notes, “Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but left to its own course it ends in power's disappearance.”The Wire Analysis Oct 09 2026