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S1E95: Politics of hate fuelling religious majoritarianism across South Asia: Asian Insider
Is there liberal opposition to what is going on, even in a more diverse India with a raucous democratic tradition?
Synopsis: Each fourth Friday of the month, The Straits Times' US bureau chief Nirmal Ghosh presents an Asian perspective of the biggest global talking points with expert guests.
In this episode, we discuss how and why, across the complex region of South Asia, majorities are convinced that minorities are a threat.
South Asia is a region of some two billion, but right-wing politics and religious majoritarianism, the arms of the state and the media, are coming together to threaten…
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