Why India’s south is fighting plans to overhaul parliament

Why India’s south is fighting plans to overhaul parliament

Tamil Nadu’s leader explains in an interview with The Economist

Gujarat Or Tamil Nadu: Which Is India’s Model State?

The current economic slowdown that India is experiencing, and the chronic joblessness its youth is suffering from, make the quest for an economic model more pressing than ever. The trajectory of Gujarat has been presented by Narendra Modi as a “model” when he was at the helm of the state between 2001 and 2014, especially during the 2014 election campaign. However, Tamil Nadu is today projected as a symbol of an alternative “Dravidian model”. How…