Editor’s take: The week that was—June 3-8

Editor’s take: The week that was—June 3-8

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The outcome of India’s general elections was the top headline of the week. Pollsters, who had predicted a comfortable victory for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, were in for a shock when early leads started trickling in on Tuesday morning. Though Modi’s National Democratic Alliance (NDA) scraped through in the end, his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lost its outright majority, making it dependent on allies to form a new government.

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