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HARDtalk

Ravi Shankar Prasad

Duration: 30 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC News EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC News Africa

HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's law and justice minister. There are growing concerns that India, the world's most populous democracy, is in the grip of a divisive brand of populism. The Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, leads a Hindu nationalist government in a country with more than two hundred million non-Hindu citizens and communal tensions seem to be rising. Could India be facing its darkest hour since independence? Show less

Contributors

Presenter:
Stephen Sackur
Interviewed Guest:
Ravi Shankar Prasad

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