On secularism, nationalism and identity politics.
India is held up as a model developing country: liberal, democratic, multicultural. Renowned Indian writer and activist Achin Vanaik joins us to examine how India has turned away from universalism and secularism.
How did Gandhi, Nehru and the Congress as a whole lay the seeds for today's Hindu chauvinism? What are the consequences of defining secularism as merely 'tolerance'? And how has caste come to function a bit like identity politics in relation to the state?
Readings:
/195/ No Shock China ft. Isabella Weber
Excerpt: /194/ Anti-Politics & Non-Movements
/193/ The New 20 Years' Crisis
Excerpt: /192/ Three Articles: Pandemic (Dis)Satisfactions
Excerpt: /191/ Reading Club: Ever Closer Union?
/190/ Top 5 Fetishes ft. Elena Louisa Lange
UNLOCKED /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
/189/ Pink Tide Paradoxes ft. Fabio Luis
UNLOCKED /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
Excerpt: /188/ The Huge Package State pt. 2 ft. Anton Jäger
/187/ The Huge Package State ft. Anton Jäger
/186/ Aufhebonus Bonus ft. Lee Jones
/185/ Discipline-Flourishing Democracy ft. Lee Jones
Excerpt: /184/ Reading Club: The European Coup
Excerpt: /183/ Acid Bunga Bunga ft. Mike Watson
Excerpt: /182/ Three Articles: Sporno-Vaxxo-Techno-Populism
/181/ Juche in North Britain? ft. Cat Boyd & David Jamieson
/180/ Bunga Bunga (but Gay) ft. Mark Simpson & River Page
Excerpt: /179/ The Hobbyist Left ft. David Swift
/173/ Reading Club: Left Case for Brexit (UNLOCKED)
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