How India Ruined Its Own Global Image - Ashok Kumar Pandey

Ashok Kumar Pandey is an author and historian whose work focuses on modern India, and he is the author of books including *Kashmirnama* and *Why They Killed Gandhi*.

India’s image abroad is changing fast, and not in a good way. As polarization deepens at home, the consequences are beginning to show up everywhere, from foreign streets and university campuses to immigration counters and the lives of ordinary Indians overseas. If a country loses its moral authority, what is left besides spectacle, denial, aggression and decay?

Expect to learn how India’s treatment of minorities is reshaping its reputation across the world, why aggressive diaspora politics is backfiring abroad, how social media normalized cruelty and humiliation, why festivals are increasingly being used as demonstrations of power, what India’s diplomatic posture reveals about its global standing, how middle class insecurity fuels anger and radicalization, why environmental collapse and civic decay are being ignored in favour of endless communal outrage, what secular parties got disastrously wrong, why democracy still matters even at the edge of authoritarianism, whether this spiral can still be reversed, and much more…

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🕰️CHAPTERS:
00:00:00 - Ashok Kumar Pandey x Kintu Parantu
00:03:06 - Travel, Image, Disgrace
00:06:05 - India’s Global Reputation
00:09:29 - Minority Fear and Kashmir
00:12:19 - Losing Moral Authority
00:13:57 - Aggressive Diaspora Nationalism
00:17:23 - Operation Sindoor Isolation
00:20:24 - Demolitions and Global Shame
00:23:19 - Festivals Abroad, Backlash
00:25:05 - Religion Versus Environment
00:28:47 - Inferiority and Performative Power
00:32:13 - Deportation and Failed Futures
00:35:26 - Social Media Made It Worse
00:39:32 - Superstition, Pollution, Collapse
00:43:34 - Ignoring Real Public Issues
00:47:30 - Violence, Misogyny, Loveless Youth
00:54:04 - Society’s Rot Went Mainstream
00:57:04 - Media, Power, Megalomania
01:01:03 - Democracy and Secular Failure
01:06:08 - Why Democracy Still Matters
01:09:12 - Middle Class Collapse Ahead
01:14:09 - Moral Corruption at Home
01:19:50 - Liberalization and RSS Rise
01:22:08 - Hope Through Public Courage
01:24:31 - Village Radicalization and Babas
01:26:40 - World Guru or Delusion
01:30:33 - Progress Lost, Escape Begins
01:33:33 - Final Reflections and Goodbye


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