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Part One: Narendra Modi, And India's Weird Nazi Obsession

Behind the Bastards

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New Delhi Is a Hard Fucking City

In the decades since the partitioning of India the nation of India lurched forward to take its place as the planet's largest democracy elections and crises came and went. At the same time people in india grew increasingly obsessed with the theories and iconography of Adolf Hitler and his nazi movement. The term hitler has become a common bollywood insult for characters who act badly like you're being a total hittler right nowYeah that's so awesome we should do this let's start this um but it kind of hints at something which is that like hitler and the legacy of the nazis isn't really seen kind of the same way over there as it is here because it's

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