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Why Is “Nationalism” A Dirty Word?

Swarajya VideosApr 22, 2019, 05:21 PM | Updated 05:21 PM IST
Hint: Look at how the Indian English-language media uses the term.

Hint: Look at how the Indian English-language media uses the term.


In India, the use of the term "nationalist" to identify someone or "nationalism" to describe an idea seldom occurs in a positive, or even neutral, light.

Somewhere within the Indian psyche, especially of those in the English-language media, it's seen almost as a dirty word.

There's a reason for it, and Swarajya senior editor Arush Tandon unpacks it for us.

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