Foreign policy is always lagely been a consent, short subject o india. We have tendit by and lace to let our political differencesan fade away at the water's edge. Indas both governments that the congress govern of the previous ten years has taken the view that we can't defor to be part of a sort of contanent strategy against china. I'd like to thank your speaker, shoshe thore, and remind you again that his new book is the struggle for india soul. So battle for belonging there you are. Unless you're in india, where it has a different title, yourselfn india.
Since Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his BJP party came to power in 2014, India has seen an increase in Hindu nationalism and a rise in hostility towards the Muslim minority population. Politician and writer Shashi Tharoor believes the country is at a crossroads. His recently published book, The Struggle for India’s Soul, looks at the political direction of the world’s second most populous nation, which he contends is splitting into two opposing factions: ethno-religious nationalists and liberal civic nationalists. If the ethno-religious nationalists prevail, he says, millions of non-Hindus would be stripped of their identity. Tharoor joins historian, author and broadcaster Rana Mitter to discuss the book and what lies ahead for India.
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