Yeah Nah Pasaran! #016 w Eviane Leidig on the far-right, India & The West : April 30, 2020

On this week’s episode of Yeah Nah, we talk to Eviane Leidig about Hindutva, India and the far-right. Evian is an Affiliate at the Center for Research on Extremism in Oslo, and her ‘doctoral dissertation traced transnational connections of the far right between India and the West, particularly through Indian diaspora supporters of Brexit and Trump in the UK and US’. Some of her recent writings include #CoronaJihad”: How the Far-Right in India is Responding to the Pandemic, Global Network on Extremism & Technology, April 15, 2020 and The Far-Right is Going Global, Foreign Policy, January 21, 2020.

See also : Yeah Nah Pasaran! #005 w Shuddhabrata Sengupta on BJP, CAA, Delhi & fascism in India : February 13, 2020 (February 12, 2020) | On Savitri Devi and esoteric neo-Nazism, see : Hitler’s Priestess: Savitri Devi, the Hindu-Aryan Myth, and Neo-Nazism, Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke, NYU Press, 1998. For shits + giggles, hear : Spear of Longinus, the Brisbane-based reich ‘n’ rollers and sometime devotees of Hitler’s Priestess.

4.30pm, Thursday, April 30, 2020 /// 3CR /// 855AM / streaming live on the 3CR website

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