Deepankar Basu's Research Featured in Washington Post
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Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi took control in 2014, hate crimes against minorities in India have skyrocketed by 300%, according to a 2019 study by Deepankar Basu, economics. Since then, Modi's party has only become stronger in India's parliament, but updated hate crime statistics are hard to find, say experts. After 2017, India's crime bureau stopped collecting data on hate crimes, news reports show.