The Shadowlands of Yogatopia: The Unlikely Alliances between Global Yoga and Neo-Hindutva.

Patrick McCartney
17 min readApr 24, 2018

I was in India when the terrible rape of Nirbhaya occurred in December 2012. Actually, I flew on the same day from Delhi to Singapore as she did. I had been in India for almost 1-year, but I was flying to Singapore to meet my parents, sister and brother-in-law for Christmas; then, after a week, they returned to India with me to see where I was living and also have an adventure across Maharasthra, Gujarat and Rajasthan. But, you can imagine, my mother and sister, both of whom had never been to India, were…

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