30-31 August 2021
At the two day “The broken mirror: Making sense of Indian politics on Twitter, an Intermedium Perspective” hosted by the Centre de Sciences Humaines and the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi, Jayana Jain will present her paper on long-distance Hindu nationalism of Indian Diaspora supporters for CAA in Germany. Based on a digital ethnographical study, her paper will contextualize how the support for the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) 2019 staged by Non-Resident Indian (NRI) students, professionals and Indian diasporas in Germany reinforce the populist right-wing Hindutva ideologies of the Modi led BJP government where Twitter and Facebook serve as digital infrastructures of both convergence and a strategy to facilitate political formations of affect.