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by the Modi regime. The India have been locked up, Directorate, CBI, Police in his closing chapter,
parable stated: “First they some have died, others are and a subjugated judiciary, Narrain offers suggestions
came for the Socialists languishing without trial in hundreds of dissenters and and strategies to counter
and I did not speak the fetid jails of India). critics have been silenced clear and present dangers
out, because I am not a “Then they came by imprisonment or by to Constitutional values
Socialist” (read Varavara for the trade unionists, assassination). and fight against the
Rao, Stan Swamy, and I did not speak out “Then they came for totalitarian agenda of the
Navlakha, and NGOs who because I am not a trade the Jews, and I did not RSS and BJP combine.
work for the poorest and unionist” (read media, speak out, because I am “All those who care
neediest whose land had journalists, critics and not a Jew”: (read Muslims, for the future of the
to be preserved from land dissenters, nationalists Dalits, the underprivileged, Republic, should read
sharks and capitalists. like Dabholkar, Pansare, and Maoists). this book,” recommends
Under draconian laws like Gauri Lankesh. Through “Then they came for Ramachandra Guha,
UAPA, NIA, citizens who invocation of the sedition me, and there was no one renowned historian and
spoke for the largest cross- law, captive institutions left to speak for me.” public intellectual.
section of the people of like the Enforcement On a positive note, ANIL THAKORE

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