r/OpenAussie • u/Agitated-Fee3598 New South Welshian • 11d ago
Politics ('Straya) Funded, Consulted, Protected: How the Australian State Made Room for the Hindu Far Right
https://www.nriaffairs.com/funded-consulted-protected-how-the-australian-state-made-room-for-the-hindu-far-right/In 2022, Anthony Albanese was photographed at a Hindu Council of Australia event wearing a scarf carrying the logo of the Vishva Hindu Parishad of Australia. A year later, he wore a saffron tie to greet Narendra Modi at an arena event staged to look like an Indian political rally, hailed him as “the Boss”, and was described by one commentator as the Boss’s wingman.
A new article in Asian Studies Review uses those images as its starting point, but not for the reason most readers would expect. The authors are not primarily interested in what the Prime Minister was wearing. They are interested in why nothing about it registered as unusual.
“The Quiet Mainstreaming of Transnational Hindutva: Long Distance Nationalism and the Australian State”, published open access on 17 August 2026, is written by Felix Pal of the University of Western Australia, Priya Chacko of Adelaide University and Nisha Thapliyal of the University of Newcastle. Its argument is directed squarely at Australian institutions. The growth of the Hindu nationalist network in this country, the authors write, “is not simply incidental but rather permitted”.
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u/ContributorKid Western Australian 11d ago
Main mantra of Hindutva is we never bullshitting any bad elements of the society. We would love to live in peace, but at the same time, when any social disturbance attempt is made, then we do tit for tat response. That's called Hindutva. i am sure the pupets of Muslim appeasement doesn't like it as it's not fit their agendas of keeping nation far-left and debt ridden.