Don’t Call Me Resilient

Indian PM Modi is expected to get a rockstar welcome in the U.S. How much is the diaspora fuelling him?

Don’t Call Me Resilient

Show Notes

As Indian Prime Minister Modi makes his first official state visit to the U.S., we chat with UCSC professor Anjali Arondekar to help us sift through Modi's wild popularity and also his divisive tactics. With one of the highest remittance rates in the world, we ask, how important the global South Asian diaspora is to politics in India?

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