/417/ Has India passed peak Modi? ft. Achin Vanaik

On India's election and a blow for the BJP.

Esteemed writer and social activist Achin Vanaik is back on Bungacast to unpick India's monumental, seven-week-long electoral process in which over 600m people took part.

• How did the ruling Hindu nationalist BJP lose its majority?

• Is there really a cult of personality around Modi?

• How does the BJP differ in important ways from Western 'national conservatives'?

• Does the BJP losing seats reflect a loss of support for Hindutva ideology?

• Modi claims India will reach developed economy status by 2047. Is this true?

• How bad are problems of under- and un-employment, especially for the youth?

• What is the nature of India's "crony oligarchy"?

• How does the National Population Register threaten to divest people of citizenship?

• How does the BJP see Israel as an example for itself?

Links:

• /198/ Universal India ft. Achin Vanaik

• In State Repression and Its Justification, India and Israel Have Much in Common, Achin Vanaik, The Wire

• Narendra Modi Is Preparing New Attacks on Democratic Rights, Achin Vanaik, Jacobin