Komireddi Hurst and Company, December 2020 320 pages. Recently, reading Kapil Satish Komireddis debut book-length polemic Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, I was reminded of that moment in. If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India By K.S. 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. The police have truncheoned, detained and shot dead protesters. 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. He was one the hundreds of thousands of protesters who have poured into the streets over the past four weeks across the country to object to India’s conversion into a Hindu state. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism.
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