"The signs for Indian democracy are looking very ominous," said Pratap Bhanu Mehta, on the December 12, 2023 podcast of “The Ezra Klein Show.” 

Mehta, a Princeton University professor who has published widely on political theory, Indian constitutional law and Indian politics, will be a featured speaker at the 2024 Camden Conference, to be held at the Camden Opera House the weekend of February 16-18, 2024.

According to the Camden Conference, in a news release, Mehta also told interviewer Lydia Polgreen that under the administration of prime minister Narenda Modi, Indian media is "creating and disseminating structures of hate, fully funded by the most powerful echelons of Indian capital." And while U.S. President Joe Biden hosted a state visit by Modi in June, Mehta thinks "the United States’ role in how Indian democracy develops will be minuscule at most."

Mehta is a Laurence S. Rockefeller Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University, and was previously Vice-Chancellor of Ashoka University, and President, Center for Policy Research, Delhi.

The 2024 Camden Conference, INDIA: Rising Ambitions, Challenges at Home, will be presented live at the Camden Opera House the weekend of February 16-18, 2024, as well as live-streamed to the Strand Theatre in Rockland, Luther Bonney Hall on the USM campus in Portland and available virtually to homes and classrooms worldwide. For the full roster of 2024 Conference speakers, and for information about memberships and ticket sales, please visit camdenconference.org.

The Camden Conference is a nonprofit, non-partisan volunteer-driven citizens' forum, whose mission is to foster informed discourse on world issues through year-round public engagement in community events and student education programs, culminating in an annual February weekend conference.