Modi’s model is at last revealed for what it is: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by big business | Arundhati Roy

India's prime minister and the billionaire Gautam Adani each benefited from the other's rise - now their relationship is under scrutiny

India is under attack by foreign powers. Specifically the United Kingdom and the United States. Or so our government would have us believe. Why? Because former colonialists and neo-imperialists cannot tolerate our prosperity and good fortune. The attack, we are told, is aimed at the political and economic foundations of our young nation.

The covert operatives are the BBC, which in January broadcast a two-part documentary called India: The Modi Question, and a small US firm called Hindenburg Research, owned by 38-year-old Nathan Anderson, which specialises in what is known as activist short-selling.