All right. Hello and welcome to episode four of Colonial Outcast. My name is Greg Stoker, and I'm joined by co-host Mark Wayne. And we are joined today also by guest, Sabika, Muslim poet, organizer, and activist. We did a live on Instagram yesterday, and we really wanted to expand on this subject. So thanks for joining us today. Is there anything

else you'd like to add about yourself before we dive straight in? No. No, nothing at all.

So today we're going to be discussing anti-Muslim sentiment and a longstanding history of violence

in India, which we imagine has been inflamed significantly by the outbreak of hostilities in

Gaza, excuse me, the active genocide being effectuated in Gaza. So for a lot of people in the

American continent, Europe, the Middle East, India is on the periphery of their geopolitical radar,

despite its global significance and massive potential. I think over the past couple months,

people have heard the term Hindutva, essentially Hindu national supremacists. Can we say that

reductively? Yeah, it's a political ideology, basically wanting an establishment of a Hindutva

Rash instead of the idea of a republic, India.

Great.

And they've heard that term for the first time recently.

They've heard about things like Kashmir for the first time also.

They see vague connections between the inflamed tensions connected to the Palestinian people,

to Palestine.

And people are mystified why so many people

from a country that languished under the British Raj for like 200 odd years would support

a colonial project like India. So you're from India. I lived in India for a time. So I understand

these things somewhat, but today Mark over here is going to interject with

clarifying questions as we proceed in order to try and make this more intelligible for people

who have never been exposed to the history, culture, and politics of India, you know, before,

before now. So there's a question, Mark, how long have you been delving into Indian history and politics?

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