Ks komireddi

'a timely intervention at a dangerous moment. The charges lays at the prime minister's door are damning.' * The Financial Times * 'Kapil Komireddi explores the unhealthy symbiosis that brought to this point. If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. In this blistering critique of India from Indira Gandhi to the present, Komireddi lays bare the cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India's past and demeaning bribes to minorities that led to Modi's decisive electoral victory. Congress now mimics Modi other parties pray for a miracle. Bigotry has been ennobled as a healthy form of self-assertion, and anti-Muslim vitriol has deluged the mainstream, with religious minorities living in terror of a vengeful majority. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism.

Since 2014, the ruling BJP has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country. India is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions.

After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism.