[tablespoon]

> So what is right wing discourse in India? How would I distinguish it? Not to be disrespectful, I just would like to know since I have such a large number of Indian friends.

I'm not very familiar with it, but I understand a big component is "Hindu nationalism," which seeks to turn India into an exclusively Hindu nation. That's resulted resulted in attacks and official harassment against minority Muslims and Christians.

A couple weeks ago the NY Times had an article on it: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/22/world/asia/india-christia...

[bruceb]

There are plenty of Indians who will also say the NY Times loves to publish exaggerated and negative articles about India.

[tablespoon]

> There are plenty of Indians who will also say the NY Times loves to publish exaggerated and negative articles about India.

I'm sure there are, but that likely-true fact doesn't shed any light on anything. For instance, Trumpers say similar things, simply because they're hostile to anything that portrays Trump in a negative light. They attack the media in order to hide the truth.

Given how attacks against relatively unbiased media are now part of the standard propaganda playbook, I don't put much stock in them unless they're very convincing. "People say" doesn't pass that threshold.

[vba616]

Googling "site:.in hindutva" produces some interesting articles about the relationship between Hindutva and Hinduism.

It seems to be of much debate. Rahul Gandhi made some controversial comments about Hindutva and BJP last year, I believe.