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Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

Modi’s “Arrogance of Power” and the Indian Farmers’ Protests with Rana Ayyub

Why Is This Happening? The Chris Hayes Podcast

MS NOW, Chris Hayes

Msnbc, The Chris Hayes Podcast, Government, Politics, Chris Hayes, Why Is This Happening?, Withpod, Versant, Ms Now, News, Society & Culture, Versant Media

4.69.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Right now, one of the world’s largest protest movements is taking place across India. Millions of farmers are demonstrating against a set of policy proposals passed by Narendra Modi and his government.

Transcript

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0:00.0

The fact that today in 2021, India, journalism organizations that were doing their journalism

0:05.6

on the farmers protest had their Twitter accounts blocked and the government actually reaches

0:10.4

all the Twitter to block their Twitter accounts speaks volumes of press freedom in India.

0:14.6

If freedom houses to be believed, we have gone from being the world's most popular democracy

0:19.7

to the least popular democracy.

0:21.7

Hello and welcome to Wise is happening with me, your host Chris Hayes.

0:31.9

Well it's not every with Pada we get to start with Rihanna, who's one of my fates.

0:37.2

How could she not be?

0:38.4

By the way, a discursive tangent here.

0:40.9

Rihanna voices the lead character in a Pixar movie called Home, which my kids absolutely

0:45.5

love and I love and is great and we've re-watched a bunch of times.

0:48.9

And for some weird reason it's never blown up as an iconic Pixar cultural phenomenon but

0:55.0

I think that should be rectified so you should definitely watch home.

0:59.3

Even if you don't have kids, it's a great movie.

1:01.1

Even if you don't have kids but you have kids, really, really fun movie.

1:04.2

Very funny, my kids quoted all the time.

1:05.9

Rihanna is the voice in that.

1:07.2

Rihanna also recently, I don't know, this might have been something that sort of passed

1:11.9

through your social media feed.

1:13.7

She voiced support for what is now I think probably the largest sustained protest happening

1:20.8

anywhere in the world, which is Indian farmers, the Indian subcontinent protesting a set of

1:27.4

policy proposals by the government of Norendra Modi.

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