Daily: THE MODI POLITIC – India’s deadly descent into despotism

The Bunker

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News, Politics, Society & Culture, Government

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🗓️ 21 July 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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India’s brutal second wave of COVID is now receding, leaving behind intensified poverty, economic carnage, a staggering estimated 400-700m infections and a death rate of approximately 2%. But things were already going catastrophically wrong in the world’s largest democracy thanks to the rule of science-denying populist Narendra Modi. Ros Taylor talks to journalist Debasish Roy Chowdhury and Professor John Keane about their latest book, To Kill A Democracy: India’s Passage To Despotism – and what Modi tells us about how democracies collapse. “India is perceived as the world's largest democracy. But there are only grains of truth in this India Story.” – John Keane “It takes seven generations for the Indian to reach the average income level. In Denmark, it only takes one.” – Debasish Roy Chowdhury “The strongman in a state of demagogues.” – John Keane “In Delhi, you can inhale half a pack of cigarettes in air pollution on a good day.” – Debasish Roy Chowdhury “India is a warning to the rest of the democratic world.” – John Keane Presented and Ros Taylor. Assistant producers Jelena Sofronijevic and Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Debasish-Roy-Chowdhury/To-Kill-A-Democracy--Indias-Passage-to-Despotism/26292160 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:15.7	We barely travel abroad anymore. When we talk about China, we think about Wuhan.
1:20.3	When we think about Australasia, we debate whether zero COVID is a viable strategy.
1:24.4	And when we think about India, many of us blame Boris Johnson for not imposing stricter border
1:29.2	controls with the country earlier, allegedly because he wanted to do a trade deal with Norengra
1:34.3	Modi. COVID has killed millions of people and made life worth for billions more,
1:38.9	but in some countries things were going wrong long before COVID.
1:43.5	One of them is India and with me to talk about it are Debbessish Roy Shoudery, a journalist
1:48.2	specialising the Indian politics and John Keene, a professor of politics at the Vissenschaff Centre in Berlin and University of Sydney.
1:55.8	They're authors of the new book, To Kill a Democracy, India's Passage to Despotism.
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