Inventing Hindu Supremacy

Mihir Dalal in Aeon: To understand Narendra Modi’s India, it is instructive to grasp the ideas of the Hindu Right’s greatest ideologue, the world of British colonial India in which they emerged, and the historical feebleness of the present regime. Vinayak Damodar Savarkar was a polymath who read law in London, enjoyed Shakespeare, admired theContinue reading “Inventing Hindu Supremacy”

“India is (not) going back into the background anymore. It has arrived.”

Modi’s economy also offers a ‘real alternative’ to China Excerpt of analysis by Diksha Madhok in CNN: India is said to be a prime candidate to benefit from the ‘friend-shoring’ of supply chains, notably at the expense of China. It has a surging young population and humming factories, and market watchers are hoping that Modi’s ruling BharatiyaContinue reading ““India is (not) going back into the background anymore. It has arrived.””