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ah, ah, india is often called the world's largest democracy. a sleeping giant, a country seemingly in search of a leader who could strike a balance between tradition and modernity. with nearly 1400000000 inhabitants, india is poised to overtake china as the world's most populous country. and its economy is also in the midst of transformation. the country is modernizing at a breathtaking pace, hoping to reduce social and equality and compete on the international stage. india boasts the world's 2nd largest military. it's geopolitical status as a nuclear power position between china and the west has allowed the country to

claim its place among the worlds superpowers. after a century, a british colonial rule, the hondas gandhi, and java harlow nehru, succeeded in securing independence in 1947 by non violent means. following 60 years under the leadership of the nehru county dynasty in 2014 india for the 1st time elected a member of the opposition party, a man from a modest background. the render mowdy took office, hamas ing national renewal with the right wing nationalist is india's new superstar. he now has one of the highest number of twitter followers of any politician in the world. movie is she's the larger than life figure. he has been consumed in his

image making. i'm a self made mum. you know, my father used to sell t. my mother used to clean house. i'm a low cost. mum, put me in the prime minister's office all create 20000000 jobs. now render mowdy had a mission, he believed india needed to reclaim it's pure authentic past. and it's vital role in the world with india is good to reclaim how history from it's glory. days went of an almost levels . when the, when old british we were all him though, and be with glorious mowdy, seemed like the strong leader that was going to help make india proud to be indians . again. are you ever know when the object boy got got they do somehow so got all that. there's got ropes. are you

it is these are the in the thought get me went on i i just heard good a false. so the problem you but the next, what is each on the hook? it's not a more on of she's modi, took center stage in an unprecedented alliance with western states against a common adversary. woman that we are forgiving with india because it's such a hunter, wait to china. ha ha, ha, ha, ha ha ha. i did. for a long time, we saw india as an impoverished nation, a place where the west sent aid on the place of mahatma gandhi, where you learned how to do yoga a spiritual place. but it's actually much more than that. it's developed in the last decade into one of the world's super powers, autumn hubbard that he saw on the home a job. now he, you know, he called himself

a jokey the around the word means the gatekeeper. a protector, a guardian. he is a person of tremendous energy, perhaps of best orator in indy, but the country is seen in living memory. but when you look at the, the message and the values that he stands for, the frightening india is wielding more power on the world stage than ever before. it's domestic policies have taken an unprecedented nationalist and authoritarian turn. but just who is no rend remedy and how is he helping to shape a new era in india and the world to understand neurons remedies influence? we accompany him to the town of kit darn up. in the north of india. the town is wholly in the hindu religion. it's where moti discovered the power of his fate and learn to share it with his followers. above all, mowdy is a devout believer. like 80 per cent of indians. he is

a hindu in this country where a large part of the population has some spiritual life to he's picking up on that knowledge. but he does it at the scale where it can just be meditation and his house has to be up in the himalayas. wood, where the gods live. in front of the cameras. modi portrays himself as a holy man, a standard bearer for india, and the world more the as a guru implies that he is some sort of spiritual leader. now, in that sense, marines are more the as prime minister teaches through example, his by who e is what he does, what he says, what he eats. when he foss, he is an exemplar of what people should aspire to be,

and people are wild by it. moody goes to great lengths to cultivate an image of spirituality. in 2019, he walked 22 kilometers through the himalayas that nearly 4000 meters above sea level. in the revered cater enough shrine, he spent 17 hours in prayer and meditation. but like the hindu gods, mowdy has many faces. he portrays himself as both spiritual leader and men of action, all the while pursuing a mission articulated by the ideologists of the indian. far right, vinny, octave motor saw our car in the 1920s. summer cur, developed an ideology that was born the same time as the fascist nazi ideologies. and the 1900 twenty's sour got inspired by mussolini. and wondered our wrote in his book he said, died for a muslim for a christian. india is not wholly learn or father learn. so the idea is to create

the indian nation in which him, those are supreme and where all minorities are at best 2nd class citizens, but ideally should be removed from the body politic. this is the ideology that prime minister more the believe, said, and has been bottom since his reelection in 2019 modi has put his hindu 1st agenda into action. one of his 1st moves was to send troops to india's cashmere region. the country is only muslim majority territory, which has long been an object of dispute with pakistan. in summer 2019 modi lost an extraordinary show of force. he revoked the state of jumbo and kashmir as semi autonomous status and imposed

a strict curfew. it was a move designed to quash the long simmering conflict at the border to pakistan. one of the most densely militarized places in the world to prevent a popular uprising, modi's administration sent tens of thousands of additional troops to the region and cut off lines of communication. what followed was a purge of opposition. members, primarily muslims, more than 4000 people. political figures activists and intellectuals were arrested . what it has done is to flourish that whole region off the edge to day. her cousins of people are in jail. all the leaders cream cheese ministers. there is no governess between the full finishing and jani. there is nothing in august 2019 with the kashmir crisis still underway. the leading industrialized

nations convened and b, or it's france for the g 7 summit. they rolled out the red carpet for the indian prime minister. moti seized the opportunity to furnish the pacifist image. he cultivates on the world stage and demonstrate his trademark bear hug. diplomacy. circuit has east and he gets the negative responses came primarily from china and pakistan that that's not a surprise. but the west didn't say a word is it's not the looks he don't less fair the west let india do as at least mean as a message was we'll be forgiving with india for commercial reasons. because india is a great market to sell weapons and more. and now she damica. i said well but understanding modi's rise to power also requires a look back to his background, his childhood and the obstacles. he faced

the ren remote. he was born in 1950 and bhatnagar in the indian state of gujarat. india had just gained independence from british colonial rule. thanks, dumont, as gandhi, and jo, a harlow nehru. after centuries of invasion and occupation, india had to reinvent its identity. mowdy was the 3rd of 6 children. his parents who were members of a lower cast were grocer's, young to render, use to help his father at work. deluge on lucas will bear legend hazard that modi's father, a member of the oil presser casks ran a t stall at the train station and their city dc, where mowdy is said to have helped sell t. as a boy gad,

it could be used to have l d. a contingent offer. it's an important element of an a render. a modi met i and i'm a deep as it means. he's a self made man, man. he worked his way up. he is a man of the people and as against a leader of book, goals, toys in it, like most school boys in his town, the render mowdy was recruited by the r s. s or national volunteer organization, which was inspired by fastest movements in europe founded in 1925 under british colonial rule. the ar ss sought to foster hindu nationalism and cast off born influences. mowdy woke at dawn to take part in outdoor exercises and listened to patriotic speeches. ah, mody learned to march and raised the flag,

but also to fight in defense of hindu values as a nationalist paramilitary organization. the ar assess, had found a new enemy, the ruling congress party, and the nehru gandhi class. in the eyes of the r ss, they were too close to the former colonial rulers. and to willing to accept the partition of british india into india and pakistan. he was he this, he all, sir donald king lot. there were also lessons on india's history hash door recounting the golden age of the hindus and supposedly the oldest people on earth than when he presents yup, rest your day. the members became increasingly indoctrinated over time until they were finally fully indoctrinated. these some quit a but those who stayed had internalized the ideology. so kinda like modi. so he worked his way up the ranks of the r s. s. is this whole cow isa? div would organisation mowdy felt more drawn to the teachings of the

hindu nationalist paramilitary group than to school. in 1965, at the age of 15, mowdy wanted to drop out and join the military. at a time when india was at war with pakistan, but his parents had a different plan in mind and arranged for him to marry a girl of the same cast. he was married off as a child. there's a tradition of child marriage in india and his family found a girl for him, roughly the same age. they were married off, and when they were dose that was supposed to go live together. he barely had me say in the matter. to escape the marriage mode, he made a decision that would change his life. he decided to leave home and travel to the himalayas. no can only nikosa miss my adjectives levix. he didn't want to marry this girl and live with her. so he laughed, he left his wife and headed off. he is driven by

a spiritual quest as he calls it me to i look him 1st. he went to bengal and then he travelled across all of india from the west to the east of going deep into the himalayas, where he lived as a hermit and ascetic on the set. modi later recounted that he spent those 2 years studying hindu teachings and the ost roms of the saw. 2 hindu holy men who had renounced worldly life and western culture ah, after returning from his pilgrimage, mowdy was certain of his destiny. his reawakened interest and hindu religion and ideology, found a home in the hindu nationalist paramilitary group that had shaped him in his youth . his new life could begin in 1973, mowdy was introduced to the new leader of the r ss bala sub de,

are us. the 2 men immediately found common cause. the radical hindu leader became 23 year old modi's mentor and spiritual bother. day ross taught moti how to speak with a motion and persuasive force. oh, it's not oh you. oh, dear us instructed mowdy in hindus, far the political ideology of hindu nationalism formulated by vina yaktel mode, our sava car, and his successors. it's an ideology that has roots in the wounds of india's history, british colonization, but also the muslim conquests and occupations between the 10th and 15th centuries. hindu nationalist is a belated response to a phenomenon that has plagued india for a millennium,

which is invasions by islamic armies from central asia. so for one millennium, india was very repeatedly vandalized, plundered by armies that came in from across the western border. a great deal of heritage of india was destroyed during those reeds, and a number of hindus were massacred and forcibly converted to islam. in the 19th century, india once again experienced humiliation and violence. this time at the hand of european colonizers no bo implemented them, was the biggest or fun who is the laser, whether it was written, simply them on for the good in very them, that is live the people that was basically based on that we made that,

that then people will also be in the name of the lady thing missing there, like did that is sorted in human beings, virginia your language. they import religion at then the grid though, in business people as a back worked not to relate. they're just tried out on thinking ever since india obtained its independence and 1947 hindu nationalists have dreamt of establishing a pure hindu state on the sacred ground of ancient india. it is a very powerful message to send out to our supporters saying india is going to re claim her history from its glory days when the enormous lemons, when the, when all british we were all him though, and we were glorious. we had the best science, we had the best religion. we had all the knowledge the world needed. a and the

gland to the claim that passed under the tutelage of skilled ideologists, mowdy acquired command over hindu nationalist rhetoric. in 1987, he joined the barajo, janet a party or b, j p. the main opposition to the ruling congress party mowdy swiftly rose through the ranks of the hindu nationalist b. j. p. from general, secretary of the good gerard branch to general secretary of the national party. he was now ready for the next step. the b j. p decided to send modi to go, jarrett to replace the states ailing cheap minister. the following year, after 3 decades in the shadows of his mentors, mowdy was finally ready to stand for election. in february, 2002, he won his by election to the good. you're out state assembly. just days later, tragedy struck at least 58 hindu pilgrims. men, women,

and children died in a fire on board a train. they were returning from iowa jaw, where hindus had demolished a muslim mos. 10 years earlier. the train had stopped in a predominantly muslim city. and hindus immediately accused muslims of having set the train on fire. mowdy visited the scene to pay his respects to the victims. nobody's that he cleared about who knew that fire and how it happening. and then mowdy just came to the front, you know, he ordered the blend door needs to be brought to him to buy them, put on display for people to sort of express the green. the muslim community was blamed for the tragedy and violence toward them escalated. moti remained silent riots spread across googe herat. eventually claiming more than 2000 lives. most of

them muslim sick girl or says ha ha ha them when yeah, what we know comes from the testimony of a police officer who is now in prison with he stated that no rent remotely called police officers to his office in good gerard on the evening of the 27th of february and asked them not to intervene for at least 3 days. the response of the police follow them on the dinner, but i have a new phone. don't want to puzzle work now done within 72 hours. we were able to control the violence more than 500 people that most of an innocent civilians and you're calling this excellent work. i'm not happy. what happened? but what we have done, i'm happy mr. moody realized that he suddenly discovered a gold mine, that out here was hugely due state and society which could be harnessed politically

. he decided to advance elections. he realized that the riots and the division and the anti most and sentiment, which had been created in woodyard because of that he had opportunity to harden this, a hindu of water back on this armoire. yet as it is showing the december election, often mowdy obtained an absolute majority sooner more than 50 per cent of the vocal funds. that's extraordinary. for india on modi had found his election strategy and his voters, but both at home and on the international stage. he was now seen as a hard line into nationalist. the u. k imposed an official, no contact policy. and the us band him from entering the country for more than 10 years. to win over india and the world mowdy needed to

paint a more likable image of himself. jealous, unco. oh, boy, of a dog. in 2014, the render mowdy stood for election as prime minister. he and his campaign turned to social media believing that mainstream media were too critical. an army of trolls tended to his image online. there were also radio broadcasts a web t v station and a youtube channel. i've job was easy because the prime minister. busy was a big messenger and he also did give a big message. so all we had to do was give package it in modern in lingle. um, so we use things from cartoons we was means we used of gadgetry chosen. so each platform, like i said, has its own on different quality. his campaign was one of the most

well oiled machines and the well, he had almost it seemed. but in the supplies of cash, he deployed an army off extremely talented and technologically savvy aides across the country. who built up a database, who knew how to target voters mowdy promised the indian people he would fight inequality, poverty and corruption. but above all, he broke with party conventions to foster a cult of personality. he's a strong leader and you know, so initially very early on, in his 1st campaign, he talked about 256 inch chest that was strong. and would, you know, as a sign of his strength and that image of strength, solidity, discipline, almost godlike follows is one that has been manufactured and multiplied and

disseminated. endlessly. i will build smart cities. i will clean the ganges. i will make india into something resembling a 1st world country. perhaps even i'll shoot. paula. give me that opportunity. he isn't it. you look. but most importantly, he is a narcissist. he loves to project himself. he believes in himself. he sees himself as an agent of destiny seesaw. it htp claw sank up back to helena and albany. is a typical electoral campaign by no rend remedy. relies on emotion and images too, and avoids making any specific political statement idea her kind of politic be week . nobody has no true interest in the economy, have po and finances and law. that's not his purpose. the phenol said

in the pap also in may 2014. at age 63, the render mowdy finally reached his goal. he was elected prime minister of india. now he would have to make good on his promises to bigger asleep, promote the country's economic growth, and to strengthen india's role on the world's political stage. boom. moti made his 1st appearance on the world stage in 2015 at the international day of yoga. he presented himself as a pacifist and spiritual leader for modi. and for india, it was a publicity coo broadcast around the world. international yoga day is now celebrated every year on june 21st. we are at home modi's. political opponents denounced his costly publicity maneuver outside the country.

moti conveyed a carefully tended image of a global guru with millions of followers who came together around the world. practically in unison, berlin, cobble new york, paris, sydney, and beyond the gigantic ad campaign with international appeal. when he's abroad, especially in western democracies, he likes to be seen as one of the group of democratic leaders ah, bearing the burden of the world. of course this, after he was, he has an aspect to it. when you do yoga, however you do it to whatever jojo got, sing it, just remember that something was started off in india. i'm. it just leaves you feeling happy about a guy with his global event. mowdy helped make good on his promise to restore india's national pride. and within a surprisingly short time, he won back the west's trust and claimed

a place among the worlds superpowers. oh, but behind his carefully cultivated image of spiritual liter, mowdy is also a hawkish commander in chief, determined to make india of leading military power. shortly after assuming office moti staged a show of military might, the naval maneuvers were a warning to pakistan and china. india's neighbors and historic enemies, but also a signal to the west which was prepared to support india militarily. mowdy was wooed by several global powers who were looking to expand their security partnership. this still unofficial endo pacific alliance was a joint strategy of japan, australia and the u. s. intended to counter chinese expansion in the pacific. b and the pacific is saw is where the future, the global system,

global economy would be written in a cell. contemplate as cian, the only count away to china with sufficient power, at least in military terms, is india theat equal. please also applies to the indo pacific. ludlow geopolitical region, spanning from the strait of hor, moves to the strait of malacca whose aim it is to restrict chinese influence in the indian am pacific ocean as no. no. so idea knows hope as if the countries in this indo pacific alliance hoped to reinforce india's position in the region and present a unified front to china. they suggested to modi that they step up their military exercises in the region. prime minister modi came into power at a moment when india was ready to take that role and he has grasp it firmly and it's made a big difference. there are now military exercises between those 2 great powers,

and although nobody says it clearly, it's a warning to china. america has wanted india to come out of its shell to be the leader in the region that it's starting to step up to be, to be a good partner to the west. there is something that a chinese call their chain of pearls of not quite bases, but ports where they can get material for their navy ships and for their commercial ships. and india sees this with real concern because a lot of those ports are right around their borders into bangladesh. in sri lanka, you have them doing a lot of building and pakistan. they famously now have a military base and djibouti and people in the region, especially india sees with this with trepidation. so what are they doing? understandably, they're looking for friends. modi turned to american japanese and increasingly french courts and military bases to strengthen and expand his own position

by focusing on the indo pacific. moti broaden his strategic alliances though to render mowdy and chinese president, she sion ping appear relaxed at this meeting. tensions between the 2 asian giants were escalating. the most critical arena for this conflict lies high in the himalayas at the border between the 2 countries. on july 3rd, 2020 mowdy paid a visit to lock. one of the most hotly disputed border regions. some 3 weeks earlier on the night of june, 15th indian and chinese troops had clashed their 20 indian soldiers were killed. it took 8 months for china to reveal that 4 of its soldiers were killed. 6 ah,

i'm isa and yet mo don't says gum. who's the indian soldiers who were killed included a high ranking officer. nobody in the soldiers there fight with hand weapon we because protocols dating back to the 1990s would prohibit the use of firearms says until you do so. the chinese used clubs, wrapped and barbed wire, leaving the bodies returned to the families in a terrible condition. when you shall trespass yellow conclave, hamid i could bail. ha, ha, ha ha ha ha ha ha, ha ha the man i did this done on a i v y. ah game tie anyway the key. ah, ah, gave julie he it was the 1st deadly confrontation between the 2 nations and 45 years. but the conflict goes back even further.

though china was the victor in the 1962 sino indian war, the 2 countries both continue to draw their own border. chinese and indian troops regularly accuse each other up, trespassing into foreign territory. the origin of the dispute in the, in the up, the am aaliyah's between india and china go back a 100 years maybe longer because of historically and angina were too large civilization. so while civilizational states, perhaps i've read his ones in the history with buffer zones, the proposals didn't always good to fight, to mutual satisfaction. oh, we have one perception. we obviously have another perception. they are all on territory that we see as indian territory. one in china has accused modi of building

a strategic network of some 60 roads in the region after the deadly incident and june 2020 china and india both deployed tens of thousands of troops and military equipment to the border. satellite images show significant mobilization on both sides new road st training camps cropped up along with military boats, missiles and hela pads and the name of the government has forced this up. the indian government immune system was also ramped up building infrastructure on i was hired offline device control. chinese infrastructure is too well ahead because they've been doing it for decades. but i infrastructure is slowly catching up. that is also enhancing our capacities to patrol. and this is sometimes leading to competitions, the indian saying to their soldiers don't shoot,

but also not backing down, which i think is not quite what the chinese expected. at the same time, india is also increasing its defense budgets every year and buying more modern military technology from the west and elsewhere. one point, you know, that's with performance won't tell you one young children. that's why i live in china resents india's ever closer bonds with the u. s. and has been tightening its border controls and an india anti chinese sentiment is on the rise. modi's government has banned a number of popular chinese mobile apps. indian security has claimed that china has stepped up, its hacking and cyber attacks with,

while he jostled for power in the new world order to render. mowdy has also cultivated relations with another key, military partner, israel and 20. 17 modi became the 1st indian prime minister to visit the country. and whenever india found itself in trouble beat against china, beat against focused on israelis gave covert support to india in the form of arms. india marcus was ruled in the z, like us were traditionally many in india. first that you could pose who good revisions will be out of worth all with these really is released, but not with book prime. mr. moon, the leaves that you thought movies visit to israel was momentous for the simple reason that no other prime minister dared to do it. or for fear of upsetting hindu nationalists look to israel as a model as a country to admire. as a paul star. ah,

these he israel surviving and thriving in a sea of hostility. it's surrounded by arab muslim countries that hate israel. and yet israel manages to survive morally survive, but prosper and has never lost a war to them. and they've always wanted india to emulate at the israeli pluck in dealing with its own adversaries in pakistan. bolstered by his new international respectability and achievements, mowdy was preparing to move forward at home with his hindu burst agenda. ah, on august 4th 2020 modi fulfilled another of his major promises. in a formal ceremony, he laid the foundation for

a new hindu temple in the city of iowa. to be built on the location of a mosque that was destroyed by a hindu mob in 1992. the ceremony was a symbol for the victory of hinduism over islam in india. and a triumph for modi's hindu nationalist bass was 60 years. we could have been order fighting because in some groups wondering, templeton was wondering how much did that had to be a grosser dallas? how can you bear new things without hanging up? once on the bust afternoon, syndrome modi became prime minister hindu nationalists began expunging the traces of other cultures in the country. india's muslim past in particular was to be erased from its landscape and its history. overland luis palmer, hendo as m was promoted everywhere, just well. for instance, history books were rewritten to glorify the hindu past. and at the same time,

they demonized the muslim invasion. as soon as you medical trail, jebel, easy muslims became the victims of discrimination campaigns and segregation. i did you, they're accused of seducing hen do girls to marry and convert them the deceitfully fee, andrew buelo, lizzie brucely quality, or their said to be planning to slaughter a cow which are sacred to hindus animals. they might just simply be bringing the cows from the livestock market to their farm. them anchorage and mobs would assault them you or even lynch? the film ill ves? ashley's. when he came to the office of rod the nation in late 2019 india lurched a further step to the nationalist right. some months after modi revoked cash mirrors semi autonomous status and his victory in the temple controversy. his b. j. p dominated parliament passed a bill, offering easier citizenship to religious minorities from 3 countries. with one

exception, muslims receded in sheep amendment act. this new law, the citizenship amendment act made religion a condition for obtaining citizenship for the 1st time. come a treaty at axia, likely indeed. the new law was the culmination of modi's hardline hindu nationalist agenda. but it triggered a wave of protests. across india, people took to the streets, declaring their support for muslims, and demanding the law be rescinded. the protesters who have gone up against new the i'm not praising focused on i'm not saying we want to destroy india . i'm not enemies of india is the prime minister would like to portray them. they are people. that song is the national anthem of india. the standard is the indian

flag and the holy book is the indian constitution. in muslim dominated neighborhoods of delhi violence flared in february 22 anti communal. clashes and attacks by hindu mobs on muslims claim the lives of more than 50 people. their hundreds were injured. human rights activists in your work. even politicians from the opposition have found themselves behind bars. it's not been, it's not been easy to stand up and speak against this government, non dom your conky. india can asleep sound lately. the human rights violations taking place on its territory are not being criticized yet. at least not on an official level. want to go for the longest time, people wondered what the state would look like. it looks the way it currently dos

it. economy has created. there is calamitous joblessness crisis minorities are being told in so many ways that they can be full indians. this is pretty much what band donation looks like. ah. with

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