Roy argues that both Kejriwal and Modi are political outsiders, the former having cut his teeth as a bureaucrat, the latter having worked at his father’s tea stall. Both are populists who cock a snook at metropolitan elites
While Habib is on much firmer ground describing Azad's youth, in Maulana Azad: A Life, the historian is absorbed by the more pressing task of recovering Azad’s contribution to the nationalist movement
Today, the international media echo indices of democracy and freedom of expression prepared by institutions like Varieties of Democracy, Freedom House, and Reporters without Borders which are often comparing the evolution of India’s regime to the Emergency.
