Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss India’s 2019 general election results with journalist Prabir Purkayastha, addressing the landslide victory of far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu-nationalist party BJP, the collapse of Congress, the global rise of right-wing ultranationalist hate politics, the crisis of neoliberalism, and geopolitics.
Links:
- Prabir Purkayastha’s independent news website Newsclick: newsclick.in
- Our previous episode “India’s specter of fascism: Modi, Hindutva, and anti-Muslim violence,” with Shehla Rashid:
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