Salil Tripathi

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Salil Tripathi is an award-winning writer based in New York. He chairs PEN International’s Writers in Prison Committee and has published three works of nonfiction.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi participates in a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) parliamentary committee meeting at the Parliament House in New Delhi on March 3, 2020. (Photo by Prakash SINGH / AFP) (Photo by PRAKASH SINGH/AFP via Getty Images)

Ideas 8 February 2021

Narendra Modi’s hashtag problem

India's government is at odds with the very platform that helped it rise to power.