Malevolent Republic supplies all three and is all the better for it." - The Observer "The book is well-documented and highly readable. both the times and the subject demand anger, argument and urgency. The charges lays at the prime minister's door are damning." - The Financial Times "A timely intervention at a dangerous moment. I rely heavily on his insights to form my own understanding of the past, present, and future of the subcontinent." - David Frum, Senior Editor, The Atlantic "Kapil Komireddi explores the unhealthy symbiosis that brought to this point. "Kapil Komireddi ranks high among the wisest, most astute, and most humane observers of modern India. If secularists fail to reclaim therepublic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. Congress now mimics Modi other parties pray for a miracle.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. Bigotry has been ennobled as a healthy form of self-assertion, and anti-Muslim vitriol has deluged the mainstream, withreligious minorities living in terror of a vengeful majority.
Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism. India is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions.Since 2014, the ruling BJP has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country. After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism.
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