Episode

5/19 Juan Cole: Did India Elect a Neo-Fascist? & the Why of the Turkey Mine Explosion

May 19, 2014

Professor and Informed Comment Juan Cole explains India’s election results, the controversial history of India’s next Prime Minister Narendra Modi, why the Congress Party lost, the politics of the Hindu far right, the fusion of religious nationalism and free market policies, what led to Turkey’s mining disaster, the Turkish integration of religious right politics and neo-liberalism and what comes next in India and Turkey.

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