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I'm Amy Goodman with Narmine Sheikh.

We're joined now for part two of our interview with Bunkaj Mishra,

award-winning Indian author and essayist, whose new book titled The World After Gaza, A History, is Just Out.

His previous nonfiction books include Age of Anger, a History of the Present, and from

the ruins of empire, the intellectuals who remade Asia.

He's also the author of two novels.

He writes regularly for The Guardian and the New York Review of Books, among other publications.

He joins us now from London.

Tancash, I wanted to start by talking about the latest news here in the United States.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is meeting with President Trump today.

Modi, though, arrived last night, and his first meeting was with the new director of

national intelligence who had just been sworn in, Tulsi Gabbard, who is Hindu American.

She is extremely supportive of Modi's brand of Hindu nationalism, which she called a way of expressing pride in one's religion.

She has very close ties to the Hindu nationalist paramilitary, who is a part of the RSS,

the RSS spokesperson, Ramadav, attended her wedding.

Can you talk about the significance of her ties to the RSS and for a global audience what the RSS is, and then

what Modi and Trump are trying to accomplish today and that Indian-U.S. relationship?

Well, you know, I think the RSS very simply is described as a paramilitary outfit.

It's the sort of mother organization for the party that rules India today.

Narendra Modi, the Indian Prime Minister, was a member, is a member of the RSS and of course the leader of the BJP.

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