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The rise of the far right is an unfortunately global phenomenon.

Perhaps nowhere is the far right stronger than in the second most populous country on earth.

India.

There, the Baratia Janta party, or BJP, continues in power under Prime Minister Narendra Modi after winning a huge victory in this year's elections. The BJP, however, isn't

just a party. The vision of the BJP and their cadre organization, the RSS, is of an India where

Muslims have no history and thus no right to belonging in the present, and of a country that

becomes great again through nuclear-armed militarism. But while Indian politics have no doubt taken a bleak turn,

they are far from novel. Today's disastrous state of affairs, as my guest Achenvinayek explains,

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