India is, suddenly, Bharat, and it could be asked, as Shakespeare wrote, what’s in a name? But Prime Minister Narendra Modi , who embraced the Sanskrit name for his country in the same week that he played lavish host to the G-20 summit in New Delhi, is trying hard to project India as a “vishwaguru" (guru to the world). It is time to examine his claims more closely, and also to see the present and the future of his “New India" without comforting illusions. Take, for instance, the booklet, “Bharat, the Mother of Democracy," presented by Modi’s government to visiting...