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Ravi Shankar Prasad, Law and Justice Minister, India

Stephen Sackur speaks to Ravi Shankar Prasad, India's law and justice minister. Could India be facing its darkest hour since independence?

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?

30 minutes

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterStephen Sackur
Interviewed GuestRavi Shankar Prasad

Broadcasts

  • Tue 17 Jul 201803:30GMT
  • Tue 17 Jul 201823:30GMT
  • Fri 20 Jul 201820:30GMT