Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi’s India
21st December 2019
Voice of the Crust The New Yorker has, of course, nothing good to say about nationalism.
The Prime Minister’s Hindu-nationalist government has cast two hundred million Muslims as internal enemies.
Which, indeed, they are, as anybody who has been paying attention for the last fifty years knows, whether they will admit it or not. The problem is that one never knows from one minute to the next when some random Muslim will freak out and start killing people, and that makes all Muslims suspect, like it or not. Indians have been coping with random Muslim violence since 1947, and it comes as no surprise that they are getting tired of it, and are starting to take steps for their security disapproved of by the Great and the Good.