Time magazine calls Modi 'India's divider-in-chief'.

NEW YORK -- The mass-circulation Time magazine has featured Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi as India's 'divider-in-chief' on the cover of its international editions, as the country enters the final phase of the general election. But Time's cover of its U.S. edition is devoted to US Senator Elizabeth Warren, one of the women candidates for the Democratic party's presidential nomination. In a stinging cover story for the magazine, entitled, 'Can the world's largest democracy endure another five years of a Modi government?', Indian journalist and novelist Aatish Taseer sharply criticized Modi for promoting Hindu nationalism, targeting Indian Muslims and failing to implement his 2014 promises for jobs and better economic management that had resulted in undercutting his popularity. 'Modi now finds himself seeking to hold power in a climate of febrile nationalism, with a platform whose themes have much more to do with national security and profiting from recent tensions between India and Pakistan than with economic growth,' Taseer wrote.

A second article in the magazine, by Ian Bremmer - who is president and founder of Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm - treats Modi far more positively, claiming that Modi is 'India's best hope' for economic reform. Taseer starts his article saying that in 2014, India became the 'first of the great democracies to fall to populism'. According to him, Modi won those elections riding on hope but this time...