Global Ethics Weekly: Violence & Nationalism in India & the U.S., with Suchitra Vijayan

Carnegie Council Podcasts

English - January 31, 2019 19:07 - 41 minutes - 47.3 MB - ★★★★ - 11 ratings
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As founder and executive director of The Polis Project, a research and journalism organization, Suchitra Vijayan is helping to document a concerning trend of identity-based violence in India. She discusses her organization's work on this issue, the violence's connection to a rise in nationalism in India since Prime Minister Modi came to power, and some imperfect parallels with the contentious political climate in the United States.