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Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi's India
Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.
By Dexter Filkins December 2, 2019
Prime Minister Narendra Modi presents himself as an ascetic economic visionary. He is also a hero of anti-Muslim bigots.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india
An excerpt cannot do this long article justice. There is an audio presentation which makes it more digestible. Learned quite a bit from listening to this New Yorker article. One hour thirty five minutes. It was worth it.
