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> So what is right wing discourse in India? How would I distinguish it? Not to be disrespectful, I just would like to know since I have such a large number of I
by tablespoon 5y ago
> So what is right wing discourse in India? How would I distinguish it? Not to be disrespectful, I just would like to know since I have such a large number of Indian friends.
I'm not very familiar with it, but I understand a big component is "Hindu nationalism," which seeks to turn India into an exclusively Hindu nation. That's resulted resulted in attacks and official harassment against minority Muslims and Christians.
A couple weeks ago the NY Times had an article on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/world/asia/india-christians-attacked.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/world/asia/india-christia...
- bruceb 5y agoThere are plenty of Indians who will also say the NY Times loves to publish exaggerated and negative articles about India.
- vba616 5y agoGoogling "site:.in hindutva" produces some interesting articles about the relationship between Hindutva and Hinduism. It seems to be of much debate. Rahul Gandhi made some controversial comments about Hindutva and BJP last year, I believe.
- tablespoon 5y ago> There are plenty of Indians who will also say the NY Times loves to publish exaggerated and negative articles about India. I'm sure there are, but that likely-true fact doesn't shed any light on anything. For instance, Trumpers say similar things, simply because they're hostile to anything that portrays Trump in a negative light. They attack the media in order to hide the truth. Given how attacks against relatively unbiased media are now part of the standard propaganda playbook, I don't put much stock in them unless they're very convincing. "People say" doesn't pass that threshold.