Modi: The Beginning Of The End? - /w. Rana Ayyub
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Things did not go to plan for the Hindu nationalists in India's elections.
Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/the-owen-jones-podcast.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hello, we're Max and George from our podcast The Useless Hotline and we're currently |
| 0:04.2 | sponsored by Garnier's Myceller Water, the UK's number one Myceller Water. |
| 0:09.8 | Last year, Garnier donated 10P per bottle of Mycella Water to Just Like Us, an LGBT-plus, young people's charity. |
| 0:19.0 | And guess what, George, they're doing it again. |
| 0:22.0 | But this year, the campaign is across the 400 |
| 0:24.3 | milliliter and 700 milliliter my cellar water. Yeah it's nice when you know a |
| 0:28.5 | brand truly cares and they see pride as being something that we should celebrate |
| 0:32.2 | 365 days ago. I see pride as being something that we should celebrate. |
| 0:32.7 | 365 days a year, not just Huang. |
| 0:37.0 | And the product works so effectively at removing makeup. |
| 0:40.0 | I use it all the time. |
| 0:41.3 | So whether you are a part of the community or not be an ally, be your |
| 0:45.8 | absolute authentic self with Garnier Myceller water, the UK's number one Myceller water. |
| 0:51.8 | Remove your makeup, never your pride. Shop now at your nearest retailer. |
| 0:59.5 | Now India has long been wanted as the world's biggest democracy and it's just gone to the polls and |
| 1:05.1 | it's an earthquake. |
| 1:06.1 | Well, it's important, certainly what happens in India should be important for all of us and |
| 1:11.1 | it's dramatic for a variety reasons. Now Modi has been the |
| 1:16.1 | Prime Minister of India since the last 10 years. Now he's a Hindu nationalist. India was founded as a secular democracy and obviously most of its population are of Hindu heritage but it has a always has had a large Muslim minority as well and the Hindu nationalist project has always |
| 1:35.9 | been based on hostility towards that minority which Modi has encapsulated in that |
| 1:40.5 | project the B.J. P. His party., there's no better person to speak about what's happened in these elections when Modi was expected his party to gain a massive majority, maybe even a supermajority to amend the Indian Constitution, and embed |
| 1:54.2 | Indian nationalism even further. That didn't happen. So this is big news, everyone. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Owen Jones, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Owen Jones and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.

