OpinionLydia Polgreen

In India, I Saw Things That Should Scare Trump

OpinionLydia Polgreen

In India, I Saw Things That Should Scare Trump

Protests in New Delhi on Oct. 10 and 15.Credit...

Visuals by Abhishek Khedekar

Lydia Polgreen is an Opinion columnist. She reported from New Delhi.

Narendra Modi, the barrel-chested strongman leader of India for the past dozen years, has finally met his match — and it looks a lot like Mohini Majumdar. Just 20 years old, slender and voluble, Majumdar is an English student at Delhi University: an unlikely antagonist for an omnipotent autocrat.

Yet early on Oct. 10, she shared an early morning taxi........

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