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- the message being pushed is "India is le bad. sic 'em!"

- it is being pushed by the usual suspects. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opinio...

- the reason for the push is India's neutral stance on the oh so important outbreak of tribal warfare happening half a world away in Eastern Europe.

there was a whole barrage of negative hit pieces about India at some point in the past two years, right after their public refusal to stop buying Russian oil or something. I assume something similar happened recently.

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Concern about the way Modi governs India is in no way as new as the Ukraine conflict; that's a simple bad faith argument.

I have no idea what supports or does not support your CIA argument, but concern about Modi is newer even than concern about the rise of the BJP and Hindu nationalism. And that concern isn't just international.

the media paid no attention to that for years. and then suddenly, there was a whole barrage all at once.

This is quite simply untrue. At least in the UK, criticism of Modi has been pretty regular and it is quite distinct from criticism of India (it's very often written with at least some reference to our historical involvement in the problems Modi exploits.)

Do a google news search for 'narendra modi site:www.theguardian.com' for example, sort by date, and you will see stories going back to at least 2019, and that is just the 30 pages result limit.

Do an advanced date search, key in a range, and you can easily find criticism of Modi's populism and the BJP's Hindu nationalism going back to 2010.

There are more than 40 pages of articles on The Guardian's site for the subject of Modi alone:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/narendra-modi?page=40

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/17/narendra-modi-...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/14/narend...

Here's an article from 2010 talking about Modi's involvement in riots in Gujarat when he was governor there:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/mar/28/gujarat-narend...

Here's an article from 2003:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/aug/18/india.uk

I don't think I need provide more evidence?

In the USA, criticism of Modi admittedly is pretty spotty, but that's more to do with the abject failure of US journalism to consider anything beyond its borders until there's an easily quantified or enumerated crisis.

But I am fairly sure if you pick a US newspaper and do a similar search you will find similar criticism.

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