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the Hello and welcome to Politics Theory Other, a podcast from Tribune magazine.

My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Archin Vaniak.

We spoke about Indian Prime Minister

Narendra Modi, the Bartia Janta Party and the history of Hindu nationalism. We also discussed

the situation in Kashmir, the Citizenship Amendment Act and the slowdown of the Indian economy.

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cast of characters as the oil starts to flow and all hell breaks loose. In the US, the book is available

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at all the usual online retailers. Archin Vaniak is a writer and social activist, a former

professor at the University of Delhi, and a fellow of the Transnational Institute. He's the author

of The Painful Transition, Borgia Democracy in India, and the rise of Hindu authoritarianism.

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