(London: C. Hurst and Co. 2019).
This is a lively analysis of Indian politics; since independence. The book is divided in two parts; an account of the long period when the Congress Party was in power; and a second part on the values and activities of the government; led by Narendra Modi.
Author: K.S. Komireddi.
Publisher : C. Hurst and Co. 2019
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Komireddi’s views on the Modi Government are Clear.
“We inhabit the most degraded moment in the history of the Indian Republic; the culmination of decades of betrayals; the eruption of a long-suppressed rage. But the good thing about bad times is that they force us to reflect; to see clearly.
The past five years have shattered so many illusions; dispelled so much fog. We can begin to accept how we arrived here: a via Dolorosa lined with corruption; cowardly concessions to religious nationalism; demeaning bribes to the minorities; self-wounding distortions of the past; and wholesale abandonment of the many for the few.”
As Komireddi Writes:
“There wasn’t a shadow of resistance as Narendra Modi stormed Delhi in the summer of 2014. After six decades of faltering secularism; India yielded spectacularly to the Hindu nationalist insurgency…Modi was the hand grenade hurled; by all those who had been sneered at, stamped upon, marginalised; subjected to cultural condescension and objectified for anthropological amusement; by the preening cast of English-speaking elites fostered by India’s venal secular establishment.”
Modi did not come to power in a harmonious and peaceful country. Rather; earlier governments had not met the challenges presented by economic, religious, and geographic divisions.
Author: K.S. Komireddi.
Publisher : C. Hurst and Co. 2019