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Read The Diplomat, Know The Asia-PacificThe Western personalized approach of building rapport with Modi to secure India’s strategic cooperation will have to change.When you hold the world’s largest electoral exercise, the outcomes can be perplexing and paradoxical. That’s what happened this week in India’s colossal parliamentary elections.After weeks of voting, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) emerged as the largest party in Parliament. Modi is now set to be sworn in for a historic third term this weekend. Yet, the victory was bittersweet: The BJP lost over 60 seats from its haul in the previous elections in 2019. It no longer enjoys a majority in parliament, which means that Modi will have to rely on the support of coalition allies to rule.Amid the numbers, there were signs of chastisement of Modi personally and a repudiation of his political use of Hindu nationalism. Modi was reelected from his constituency in the holy town of Varanasi. Bu...