Modi-Biden talk of ‘values’ has one purpose. Strengthening the cause of democracy isn’t it by Kapil Komireddi | The Print

The prime minister’s self-absorption is matched by the stupidity of his most performative critics, who beseech the American president to berate Modi for straying from the democratic path. The obsceneness of setting up the head of an empire decaying from its addiction to gratuitous foreign wars as the umpire of what constitutes correct democratic conduct does not occur to them. Their heads are so deeply lodged inside their fundaments that they cannot notice the absurdity of exhorting a state that still maintains a torture facility in Cuba—and is responsible for the displacement of 37 million people in distant lands in the past two decades—to hector India on its internal affairs.