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:
[UNLOCKED] /77/ CaliBunga: Tech, Drugs & Capitalist Soul, Pt. 2
/101/ UK Election: A Disaster Foretold
/100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
Excerpt: /99/ Proof in the Pudding
/98/ Painful Politics ft. Jennifer Silva
/97/ Bungacast Analytica ft. João Magalhães
Excerpt: /96/ Three Articles
/95/ The Fall of Rojava? ft. Dani Ellis / Alexander Norton
Excerpt: /94/ Reading Club 2: Anti-Politics
/93/ Hot Chile and Other Neoliberal Failures ft. Pablo Pryluka
Excerpt: /92/ Three Articles
/91/ Exhaustion Revealing ft. Leigh Phillips
Excerpt: /90/ Work, Bitch ft. Amber A'Lee Frost
/89/ On the Lam: Hong Kong Rebels ft. Toby Carroll
Excerpt: /88/ Vouchers for Toxicity ft. Anton Jäger
/83/ Now It’s Syrizous [UNLOCKED]
Excerpt: /87/ Berluscoming
/86/ Monsters of the Interregnum ft. Rune Stahl
Excerpt: /85/ Reading Club No.1
/84/ How To Fail Better ft. Adam Proctor
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