PM Modi signals key moves in long game – overseas and at home

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s extensive conversation with podcaster Lex Fridman, released last Sunday, caught eyeballs not just because the MIT researcher was an unusual choice for an interviewer — the PM does not do anything without careful deliberation — it was also unprecedented as it lasted for more than three hours. Some of the challenges the PM faces today on the global stage and nationally — and the podcast pointed to them — come from the Right, quite ironic since he has represented a rightward shift in Indian politics. Like other heads of government, Modi too has to contend with...