Global media gives thumbs down to Modi

The international media has been largely unsparing towards BJP PM candidate Narendra Modi.
The most recent issue of The Economist had the PM hopeful on the cover, with a strongly worded editorial inside that said: "This newspaper cannot bring itself to back Mr Modi for India's highest office. "
In an April 14 article in the Guardian titled 'Narendra Modi : Britain can't simply shrug off this Hindu extremist', author Priyamvada Gopal made a case for the UK severing its links with the man. She writes: "In the face of a global resurgence of the right we must be alert to all its extremist forms."
A piece by Thane Richard in the Quartz also went viral on social media last month. It spoke of how India would cross the "moral line of no return" if Modi becomes PM. Taking on Modi's insistence on leveraging development over other issues, Richard writes: "Has India become so desperate for rapid economic growth... that she has forgotten basic humanity?"