From my new column in Taki’s Magazine:
Steve Sailer
September 13, 2023India is in the spotlight as it throws the G20 economic conference. Its host, Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi, is fooling around, Elon Musk-style, with the idea of changing the name of his country to “Bharat” as an anti-colonial gesture. And the California legislature has, after much acrimony among Hindus, sent a bill to governor Gavin Newsom’s desk outlawing the ancient Hindu tradition of caste discrimination.
Americans never had to think about caste before, but it’s not too unlikely that both vice presidential candidates in 2024 will be Tamil Brahmins: Kamala Harris and Vivek Ramaswamy.
Indian prime minister Modi, an energetic right-winger, is the man who gets the toilets installed on time. Modi strenuously attacked India’s worst problem—lack of sanitation—by having 110 million toilets hooked up in his first half decade in office.
More generally, he’s trying to build national unity and effectiveness by promoting old-fashioned nationalism. …
But what do India’s 1.4 billion people have in common?
Read the whole thing there.
