There's hardly a channel you can turn to, which is not singing the praises of Modi,

for being exactly that kind of strong man who is able to deal with the enemy.

And so basically he's demonizing Muslims, Pakistan, to some, you know, Kashmiris, etc.

And he'd rather have that than promote peace in Kashmir or

anything remotely sane.

Hello and welcome to politics, Theory, Other. My name is Alex Doherty and my guest today is Radica

Desai. We spoke about the latest round of violence between India and Pakistan

following the terrorist attack that killed 26 tourists in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22.

We discussed the situation in Jammu and Kashmir since 2019 when the Hindu nationalist

government of Narendra Modi revoked the territory's special status under the Indian constitution

and brought it under direct rule amid a wave of violent repression. We also talked about fears

in Kashmir about the Indian government seeking to change the demographic balance in the territory

and about the scale of the fighting between Pakistan and India, which far exceeded the last round

of conflict in 2019.

Radica Desai is the author of Capitalism, Coronavirus and War and Geopolitical Economy,

after US Hegemony, Globalisation and Empire. Her writings appeared in The Guardian, the Hindu and

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So Radica, the latest round of violence between India and Pakistan, the worst for some decades,

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