India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi participates in the mass yoga demonstration at Rajpath on the occasion of International Yoga Day, in New Delhi on June 21, 2015. Image taken by the Government of India via Wikimedia Commons.
Although Modi, like his ally President Trump, takes to using Twitter to mimic solidarity, connection, and empathy with his followers, we must not confuse Modi’s spectacle of compassion with actual compassion.
“Spectacles of Compassion: Modi’s Weaponization of Yoga”
Bibliolography
Sood, Sheena. 2020. “Spectacles of Compassion: Modi’s Weaponization of Yoga,” Jadaliyya. (https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/41048/Spectacles-of-Compassion-Modi-and-the-Weaponization-of-Yoga)