Hello my name is David Runsman and this is Talking Politics.

And we're bringing you an extra edition this week.

There's an election on as you know and so our main weekly edition is going to be taken up with that.

But we also always want to talk to the most interesting people who come to Cambridge about politics.

And I'm delighted to be joined by Pancage Misra who's speaking at the Cambridge Literary Festival.

We're actually about to speak together at the Cambridge Literary Festival.

But we're sitting in a room beforehand to have a chat about his book, The Age of Anger

and how that relates to many of the things that we've talked about on Talking Politics.

Modi Trump Brexit.

So if we start with Modi Trump and we've talked a little bit about whether the comparison really makes sense.

My feeling is that it does.

What views the primary thing that connects the movements that they represent?

Well for one, both are outsiders and they broaden their appeal using Twitter.

I mean these are very superficial things I'm talking about but they are important in the sense that here is Modi

who was an outcast, widely derided in politics.

Really in a kind of disgrace after his complicity.

Some people with his suspected but many others would say quite real complicity in anti-Muslim violence in 2002.

And for a long time nobody thought that he would go anywhere apart from continuing Chief Minister of Gujarat.

But then he launched this campaign after 2010 using Twitter extremely shrewdly speaking above the heads of mainstream media organizations

and built up a large following, attacking Delhi-based elites, English-speaking elites, very shrewdly capitalizing on feelings of Rishantimo among large numbers of aspiring young Indians

who felt their way blocked by this particular elite and felt that there was really nobody among established mainstream parties representing them.

And that benefits of liberalization or globalization in India were being monopolized by a tiny minority.

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