Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is clearly losing ground in the battle against the farmers but is not helping matters with its tactics of dividing farmers and mobilising the bhakts against them. The third strategy of using the security apparatus and dredging up the Khalistani movement is unlikely to work either. It may be time for Mr Modi to display some statesmanship, writes Vir Sanghvi. Read his assessment of the serial mishandling of the farmers' protests here and the edit on how dissent and criticism are increasingly being presented as sedition here
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The decision to liberalise the Indian geo-spatial information sector,