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Two for Tea Podcast

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Louie Palu

Gabriel Wyner

Candace Bushnell

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Tennessee Williams

Tracy K. Smith

Chris Lee

Jonathan Brown

Jonathan Haidt

Greg Lukianoff

David Ley

Jia Tolentino

OwlTail

Praveen Donthi

In this episode, journalists Rohini Mohan and Praveen Donthi talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the recent widespread protests in India over the Modi government’s Citizenship Amendment Act and why many see the act as a threat to India’s secular nature and constitution. Donthi talks about his time reporting in Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, and the abrupt change in its autonomous status, announced in August; Mohan speaks about covering Assam, a state in India’s northeast where the debates over who belongs have a longer history. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below.Guests: Rohini Mohan Praveen Donthi Selected readings for the episode:Rohini Mohan  Inside India’s Sham Trials That Could Strip Millions of Citizenship, Vice, July 29, 2019   India’s Immigration Crackdown Could Make Millions Stateless, Time, August 14, 2018  Prove your grandfather is Indian: People who lack flawless paperwork cannot just be jailed as illegal migrants, August 2, 2019   Prove your Grandfather is Indian: Ground Reportage on NRC / Bangalore International Centre video interview  Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War (Verso) Praveen Donthi (all pieces from The Caravan)  Modiʼs war: Dispatches from a seething Kashmir September 22, 2019  “One Solution, Gun Solution”: Ground report: Kashmir in shock and anger, August 16, 2019  The liberals who loved Modi May 16, 2019 OthersBooks Basharat Peer Curfewed Night   Mirza Waheed (multiple novels)  Under Siege: Mirza Waheed on Kashmir (LitHub, September 10, 2019) Karan Mahajan The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel  Madhuri Vijay, The Far Field: a novel Articles  Ground report: On a cold night in the new year, JNU attacked by a masked mob; Delhi Police watched, The Caravan, January 5, 2020  India’s first-time protesters: Mothers and grandmothers stage weeks-long sit-in against citizenship law, By Niha Masih, The Washington Post, Jan. 13, 2020  Reading the Signs: The protest poster is where art meets agitation, poetry meets politics. In India, it was born during the freedom struggle, and grew up through post-Independence struggles against inequality. With the anti-CAA protests, it embraces a new digital life. by Benita Fernando, The Indian Express, January 5, 2020  Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi's India, by Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, Dec. 9, 2019  ‘Hum Dekhenge’: Singer and writer Ali Sethi explains how to read (and interpret) Faiz’s poem, Scroll, Jan. 9, 2020  Why the National Population Register is more dangerous than the Assam NRC, by Harsh Mander &amp; Mohsin Alam Bhat, Scroll, Jan 12, 2020  Pankaj Mishra and Mirza Waheed on the Death of India's Liberal Self-Image, Scroll, Jan. 5, 2020  Behind Campus Attack in India, Some See a Far-Right Agenda, By Kai Schultz and Suhasini Raj, The New York Times, Jan. 10, 2020 Earlier attacks on students: Attack on art, by Anupama Katakam, Frontline Magazine, May-June 2007 Earlier, Rohini Mohan on Kashmir in The Wire: In Kashmir, Doctors Bear Witness, Sept. 5, 2016 Earlier, Praveen Donthi on Assam in The Caravan: How Assam's Supreme Court-mandated NRC project is targeting and detaining Bengali Muslims, breaking families, July 1, 2018  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, journalists Rohini Mohan and Praveen Donthi talk to Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast co-hosts V.V. Ganeshananthan and Whitney Terrell about the recent widespread protests in India over the Modi government’s Citizenship Amendment Act and why many see the act as a threat to India’s secular nature and constitution. Donthi talks about his time reporting in Kashmir, India’s only Muslim-majority state, and the abrupt change in its autonomous status, announced in August; Mohan speaks about covering Assam, a state in India’s northeast where the debates over who belongs have a longer history. To hear the full episode, subscribe to the Fiction/Non/Fiction podcast through iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher, Spotify, or your favorite podcast app (include the forward slashes when searching). You can also listen by streaming from the player below.Guests:<ul> <li>Rohini Mohan</li> <li>Praveen Donthi</li> </ul> Selected readings for the episode:Rohini Mohan<ul> <li> <a href="https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/3k33qy/worse-than-a-death-sentence-inside-indias-sham-trials-that-could-strip-millions-of-citizenship" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Inside India’s Sham Trials That Could Strip Millions of Citizenship</a>, Vice, July 29, 2019 </li> <li> <a href="https://time.com/5366462/india-assam-citizenship/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">India’s Immigration Crackdown Could Make Millions Stateless</a>, Time, August 14, 2018</li> <li> <a href="https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/toi-edit-page/prove-your-grandfather-is-indian-people-who-lack-flawless-paperwork-cannot-just-be-jailed-as-illegal-migrants/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prove your grandfather is Indian: People who lack flawless paperwork cannot just be jailed as illegal migrant</a>s, August 2, 2019 </li> <li> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIYp8FWPABM&amp;t=3417s" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Prove your Grandfather is Indian: Ground Reportage on NRC / </a>Bangalore International Centre video interview</li> <li> <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781781688830" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Seasons of Trouble</a>: <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/1704-the-seasons-of-trouble" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War</a> (Verso)</li> </ul> Praveen Donthi (all pieces from The Caravan)<ul> <li> <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/conflict/modi-war-dispatches-from-seething-kashmir" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Modiʼs war: Dispatches from a seething Kashmir</a> September 22, 2019</li> <li> <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/conflict/one-solution-gun-solution-gun-solution-kashmir-in-shock-and-anger" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“One Solution, Gun Solution”: Ground report: Kashmir in shock and anger, </a>August 16, 2019</li> <li> <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/the-liberals-who-loved-modi" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The liberals who loved Modi </a>May 16, 2019</li> </ul> OthersBooks<ul> <li>Basharat Peer <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781439109113" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Curfewed Night</a> </li> <li> <a href="https://www.penguin.co.uk/authors/42989/mirza-waheed.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mirza Waheed </a>(multiple novels)</li> <li> <a href="https://lithub.com/under-siege-mirza-waheed-on-kashmir/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Under Siege: Mirza Waheed on Kashmir</a> (LitHub, September 10, 2019)</li> <li>Karan Mahajan <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143109273" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Association of Small Bombs: A Novel</a> </li> <li>Madhuri Vijay, <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780802147967" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Far Field</a>: a novel</li> </ul>Articles<ul> <li> <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/education/jnu-abvp-attack-5-january" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ground report: On a cold night in the new year, JNU attacked by a masked mob; Delhi Police watched</a>, The Caravan, January 5, 2020</li> <li> <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/indias-first-time-protesters-mothers-and-grandmothers-stage-weeks-long-sit-in-against-citizenship-law/2020/01/12/431ae9c6-30d5-11ea-971b-43bec3ff9860_story.html?fbclid=IwAR2rNzIE5JvyGvGeMGh6jblLN8lzJFnkYUSjna3wiOfSSWmo97pdVkp5PzQ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">India’s first-time protesters: Mothers and grandmothers stage weeks-long sit-in against citizenship law</a>, By <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/niha-masih/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Niha Masih</a>, The Washington Post, Jan. 13, 2020</li> <li> <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/reading-the-signs-caa-nrc-jamia-ambedkar-constitution-india-narendra-modi-amit-shah-muslims-6196347/?fbclid=IwAR0NJG5F91UPDveJk9_Fkufosgd5OJmY4jIlfKOncyGgTo7W3DRrvFrWkgg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Reading the Signs: The protest poster is where art meets agitation, poetry meets politics. In India, it was born during the freedom struggle, and grew up through post-Independence struggles against inequality. With the anti-CAA protests, it embraces a new digital life. </a>by Benita Fernando, The Indian Express, January 5, 2020</li> <li> <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/12/09/blood-and-soil-in-narendra-modis-india" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Blood and Soil in Narendra Modi's India</a>, by Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker, Dec. 9, 2019</li> <li> <a href="https://scroll.in/article/949137/hum-dekhenge-singer-and-writer-ali-sethi-explains-how-to-read-and-interpret-faizs-poem" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘Hum Dekhenge’: Singer and writer Ali Sethi explains how to read (and interpret) Faiz’s poem</a>, Scroll, Jan. 9, 2020</li> <li> <a href="https://scroll.in/article/949097/why-the-national-population-register-is-more-dangerous-than-the-assam-nrc?fbclid=IwAR3trXflW7c_XF_h6uCVemtZza1I6XFrdJOSKyz624E_d1HLTZg2wdwmAMU" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Why the National Population Register is more dangerous than the Assam NRC</a>, by <a href="https://scroll.in/author/1580" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Harsh Mander</a> &amp; <a href="https://scroll.in/author/16711" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Mohsin Alam Bhat</a>, Scroll, Jan 12, 2020</li> <li> <a href="https://thewire.in/rights/pankaj-mishra-mirza-waheed-kashmir-caa-india" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pankaj Mishra and Mirza Waheed on the Death of India's Liberal Self-Image</a>, Scroll, Jan. 5, 2020</li> <li> <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/10/world/asia/india-jawaharlal-nehru-university-attack.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Behind Campus Attack in India, Some See a Far-Right Agenda</a>, By <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/kai-schultz" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Kai Schultz</a> and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/suhasini-raj" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Suhasini Raj</a>, The New York Times, Jan. 10, 2020</li> <li>Earlier attacks on students: <a href="https://frontline.thehindu.com/static/html/fl2410/stories/20070601003902600.htm?fbclid=IwAR0bF0lt0qm9Eir_7kTsp1Eve3npNalP7cHKj0ZzjLcus8ur1VKUlFlx84o" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Attack on art</a>, by Anupama Katakam, Frontline Magazine, May-June 2007</li> <li>Earlier, Rohini Mohan on Kashmir in The Wire: <a href="https://thewire.in/politics/in-kashmir-doctors-bear-witness" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In Kashmir, Doctors Bear Witness</a>, Sept. 5, 2016</li> <li>Earlier, Praveen Donthi on Assam in The Caravan: <a href="https://caravanmagazine.in/politics/assam-supreme-court-nrc-muslim-families-breaking-detention" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">How Assam's Supreme Court-mandated NRC project is targeting and detaining Bengali Muslims, breaking families</a>, July 1, 2018</li> </ul> Learn more about your ad choices. 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S3 Ep. 8: Who Can Be A Citizen?: Rohini Mohan and Praveen Donthi on Hindu Nationalism, Exclusion, and Belonging in Modi's India

Rohit Chopra

6:41 The difference between Hinduism and Hindutva12:55 How is ethnonationalist militancy compatible with Hinduism?19:42 Buddhism and violence23:24 The RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh)26:27 What ethnonationalist groups have in common31:04 The caste system54:16 Arranged marriage in India58:04 Hypocrises of Indians living in the US59:17 Violence in the media1:00:43 More on arranged marriage1:06:38 Modi &amp; his government1:08:21 Babri Masjid1:20:51 Yogi Adityanath1:33:09 Indian secularism1:42:47 The future of Hindu nationalism &amp; how to combat itRohini Mohan is the author of The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War (2014): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239396/the-seasons-of-trouble-by-rohini-mohan/9781781688830/Rohit Chopra is the author of three books: Inter-Religious Marriages Among Muslims: Negotiating Religious and Social Identity in Family and Community (2005), with Abdullahi An-Naim; Technology and Nationalism in India: Cultural Negotiations from Colonialism to Cyberspace (2008); and The Virtual Hindu Rashtra. Saffron Nationalism and New Media (2019). His latest work can be found here: https://www.amazon.com/9789353029579-Books/s?k=9789353029579&amp;rh=n%3A283155You can follow @rohini_mohan on Twitter. For a particularly moving article of hers, see "A Template for Hate":https://harpers.org/archive/2018/09/india-bharatiya-janata-party-intolerance-bjp-muslim-hindu/ You can follow Rohit Chopra on Twitter, where he tweets as @IndiaExplained. His podcast with Bunty Bolta can be found here: https://audioboom.com/channel/the-india-explained-podcast and on most other podcast apps.Other References:Shashi Tharoor, Why I am a Hindu (2018)The work of Ashis Nandy (b. 1937) and Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (1897–1999)Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (2000)

6:41 The difference between Hinduism and Hindutva 12:55 How is ethnonationalist militancy compatible with Hinduism? 19:42 Buddhism and violence 23:24 The RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh) 26:27 What ethnonationalist groups have in common 31:04 The caste system 54:16 Arranged marriage in India 58:04 Hypocrises of Indians living in the US 59:17 Violence in the media 1:00:43 More on arranged marriage 1:06:38 Modi &amp; his government 1:08:21 Babri Masjid 1:20:51 Yogi Adityanath 1:33:09 Indian secularism 1:42:47 The future of Hindu nationalism &amp; how to combat it Rohini Mohan is the author of The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War (2014): <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239396/the-seasons-of-trouble-by-rohini-mohan/9781781688830/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/239396/the-seasons-of-trouble-by-rohini-mohan/9781781688830/</a> Rohit Chopra is the author of three books: Inter-Religious Marriages Among Muslims: Negotiating Religious and Social Identity in Family and Community (2005), with Abdullahi An-Naim; Technology and Nationalism in India: Cultural Negotiations from Colonialism to Cyberspace (2008); and The Virtual Hindu Rashtra. Saffron Nationalism and New Media (2019). His latest work can be found here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/9789353029579-Books/s?k=9789353029579&amp;rh=n%3A283155" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/9789353029579-Books/s?k=9789353029579&amp;rh=n%3A283155</a> You can follow @rohini_mohan on Twitter. For a particularly moving article of hers, see "A Template for Hate": <a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2018/09/india-bharatiya-janata-party-intolerance-bjp-muslim-hindu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://harpers.org/archive/2018/09/india-bharatiya-janata-party-intolerance-bjp-muslim-hindu/</a> You can follow Rohit Chopra on Twitter, where he tweets as @IndiaExplained. His podcast with Bunty Bolta can be found here: <a href="https://audioboom.com/channel/the-india-explained-podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://audioboom.com/channel/the-india-explained-podcast</a> and on most other podcast apps. Other References: Shashi Tharoor, Why I am a Hindu (2018) The work of Ashis Nandy (b. 1937) and Nirad Chandra Chaudhuri (1897–1999) Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India (2000)

15 - Rohit Chopra and Rohini Mohan - Hindu Ethnonationalism

This week we spoke with Rohini Mohan, just back in India following a book tour for her book 'The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War'. We get into how she wrote and researched the book, how it was edited and her writing process. Show notes for everything mentioned in the episode are available at sourcesandmethods.com

This week we spoke with Rohini Mohan, just back in India following a book tour for her book 'The Seasons of Trouble: Life Amid the Ruins of Sri Lanka's Civil War'. We get into how she wrote and researched the book, how it was edited and her writing process. Show notes for everything mentioned in the episode are available at <a href="http://sourcesandmethods.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sourcesandmethods.com</a>

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