Narendra Modi Sweeps to Power in India

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India has its Modi moment as the former opposition party leader becomes prime minister of the world's largest democracy. Yogita Limaye reports from Delhi, where the stock market has leapt to a new high on news of the BJP's victory. Tom Maresca joins us from Ho Chi Minh City, where anti-Chinese riots have flared up as Beijing and Vietnam once more claim sovereignty over disputed waters. Vaiju Naravene of The Hindu newspaper discusses the week's events with Simon Constable of the Wall Street Journal. Robert Milliken, Australian correspondent for The Economist, talks biopics and barrier reefs, and reveals that he doesn't play computer games, while Scott Foundas of Variety, talks about thriller Welcome to New York, based on real events involving disgraced former French government minister Dominique Strauss Kahn.