And if you really love me, baby,

don't be scraping you, you can all my brain.

And if you really love me,

baby, help'll be scraping you to solve my brother. This This is a hell.

A song about coffee, mucus and pain is an oddly perfect way to start this week's set of shows here on

This is Hell. Manufacturing descent since 1996. This is hell and when you are a political leader and you are

being compared to Hitler and your best defense is actually I'm acting a lot more

like Pinochet than Hitler. You know things

are not going well for democracy within your government and that's exactly what is happening

in the current India of Prime Minister Narendramody and his ruling VjP party.

Modi, who was overwhelmingly re-elected for a second term in 2019,

just prior to the pandemic,

has used the virus's cover to expand his agenda and impose all sorts

of new laws on the public.

Modi's project had already slashed taxes on the wealthiest and corporations cut social spending

for those who needed it most and had privatized much of the public sector,

selling it off to businesses with far too many connections to the Modi government and his party.

Meanwhile, Modi in the BJ. had stoked the flames of

divisiveness with those flames turning into full-blown

fires of Hindu nationalism. With violent mobs targeting those who are not, in

their view, real Indians. By the time the coronavirus came to India, Modi's nationalism and

neoliberalism were ready to pounce and without parliament convened, the government's power was

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