Over the past three years India has endured more than its share of bad news and suffering. The pandemic has
killed between 2.2m and 9.7m people. Lockdowns caused the economy to shrink temporarily by a quarter and
triggered the largest internal migrations since partition in 1947, as city workers fled to their villages. Religious
tensions have been simmering, stoked by the anti-Muslim chauvinism of the Bharatiya Janata Party (bjp), in
power since 2014 under the strongman prime minister, Narendra Modi. Now
