“A sense of malaise” hangs over India, says Jeffrey Gettleman in The New York Times. The country is the world’s second worst-hit nation by the number of reported Covid-19 cases, and a tough lockdown earlier this year wrought immense economic and social pain. The economy shrank by an astounding 23.9% in the three months to June compared to a year before. Up to 200 million people risk falling into poverty.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has proven an expert in the art of sweet-talking investors while failing to deliver on his promises, says Ritesh Kumar Singh in the Nikkei Asian Review. Recently his political formula has boiled down to “cash handouts” and culture wars.
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