On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Brahma Chellaney, a former advisor to India’s National Security Council. He engages in a debate with Afshin Rattansi on the reduced vote share that the Indian electorate gave Narendra Modi’s BJP after ten years of his rule, why the INDIA opposition alliance was still unable to topple the BJP and its allies, poverty alleviation and inequality in India compared to neighboring communist China, Modi’s Hindu-Muslim culture wars as economic problems persist for the poor and working classes, the increased concentration of ownership of India’s media outlets by oligarchs, India’s pro-Israel turn under Narendra Modi and deepening ties with the West, New Delhi’s independent stance on the Ukraine proxy war and continued good relations with Russia, and much more.
