Modi to be sworn in as India's PM

Narendra Modi will be sworn in as India's Prime Minister for a third time this afternoon. Mr Modi's BJP party won far fewer seats than predicted and will have to rely on its allies to form a government. Thousands of guests, including world leaders will attend an inauguration ceremony in the capital, Delhi.

Also in the programme: A female Mexican novelist on the cautious optimism for the country's first female president; and the BBC podcast host asking why three million Indian people who died in the Bengal famine have been forgotten by history.

Joining the presenter Luke James, our guests are Rosa Freedman, Professor of Law, Conflict and Global Development at the University of Reading here in the UK, and Andreas Østhagen, a senior researcher on the Arctic at the Fridtjof Nansen Institute in the Norwegian capital, Oslo.

(Photo: Narendra Modi, leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Credit: EPA)