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:
/141/ Oh Lebanon, What Now? ft. Rima Majed
Excerpt: /140/ Three Articles: Right-Populism
/139/ Dollar Empire ft. Yakov Feygin & Dominik Leusder
Excerpt: /138/ Fuck, Abolish, Defund: The Police
Excerpt: /137/ Reading Club: War, Technology, The State
/136/ Banana Monarchy ft. David Edgerton
UNLOCKED /115/ Singapore Shangri-La ft. Lee Jones
Excerpt: /135/ Aufhebonus Bonus (June)
Excerpt: /134/ The Call - Afterparty
/133/ The Call ft. Krithika Varagur
/132/ Partial to Slavs ft. Lily Lynch
Excerpt: /131/ Reading Club: The PMC
Excerpt: /130/ Three Articles: BLM
/129/ The Right Is Weak ft. Corey Robin
/128/ BACKLASCH! ft. Anna Khachiyan
Excerpt: /127/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (3bis) ft. Angela Nagle & Michael Tracey
/126/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (3) ft. Angela Nagle & Michael Tracey
Excerpt: /124/ Three Articles: Money & Power
/123/ Mr Bunga Goes to Washington (2) ft. Nicholas Kiersey
Excerpt: /122/ TFW NO GF
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