![]() ![]() If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. ![]() In his blistering critique of India from Indira Gandhi to the present, Komireddi lays bare what he considers 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. ![]() According to Komireddi, India is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. In the aftermath of India’s general elections earlier this summer, we invite journalist and commentator Kapil Komireddi to join us and discuss his critically acclaimed new book, Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India.Īfter 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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