Modi expected to win India’s election

The idea that all Hindus share the same grievances and goals is just ‘culture-war’ lies, and caste is finally taking its rightful place on India’s political agenda. It may be too late to turn back the BJP juggernaut, but fascism is not necessarily India’s future.

India’s 200 million Muslims—about one-seventh of the population—are now deliberately targeted by Narendra Modi’s militantly Hindu Indian People’s Party, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

April 18, 2024

LONDON, U.K.—Extreme nationalism always looks foolish or even deranged to those who have not caught the virus, but in India it’s now official.

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