It was a blow to Modi’s authoritarian grip—and a win for scrappy digital activists.
proved anything, it’s that the “world’s largest democracy” may yet still be worthy of that name. The results of the six-week cycle, which saw more than 640 million voters turn out across the subcontinent, dealt a steep blow to the demagogic Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party, which lost its single-party hold over the majority of seats in India ’s lower house of Parliament, the Lok Sabha.
Independent news websites that took to digital channels to reach readers beyond newspaper circulation and TV broadcasts were hounded by the government to a frightening extent: Fahad Shah, editor in chief of the Kashmir Walla, was baselesslywas arrested in October under “terror” charges and freed only last month, after the country’s Supreme Court intervened.
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