Challenging the Modi spin on India | with Aisik Saha
Episode description
Aishik Saha is an activist with the All India Students’ Association and the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-Liberation. He is also a researcher on labour and the digital economy.
In this interview with Green Left's Peter Boyle, he discusses Indian PM Narendra Modi's doubling down on his Hindu nationalist hate campaigns despite his Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) losing ground in the last elections. He also discusses the role of the left in alliances to resist "BJP fascism", the intersection of class and caste, the movements against sexual assault and misogyny and Modi's influence on the Indian diaspora.
We acknowledge that this was produced on stolen Aboriginal land. We express solidarity with ongoing struggles for justice for First Nations people and pay our respects to Elders past and present.
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