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the fact that it had learnt impulse. He writes: how the cracks in the He is articulating critiques
much from the Congress “Asked in 2014 if he felt scaffolding of the Indian and dissensions that often
playbook. any sorrow for the death state were identified and liven up Indian living
Komireddi’s effort in of Muslims in 2002, Modi used to build the BJP rooms. This book explains
Malevolent Republic is replied: if ‘someone else system. If Congress at that Indian democracy
not to complain, but to is driving a car and we’re one time was cosy with has become so vacuous
awaken. His text is deeply sitting behind, if a puppy Indian news agencies, that hate, the emotion that
critical not only of the comes under the wheel, Modi made the media once lurked on the fringes
Modi regime, but also of will it be painful or not?” genuflect. He writes: of society, has flown in to
what made it possible. This analogy outraged “Indira Gandhi shackled fill the vacuum. Hate is
Unlike other commenta- liberal commentators in the press. Modi co-opted in. It is mainstream. And
tors on this issue, he does Delhi. Yet hardly anybody it”. If the Congress revised for Komireddi, this has
not absolve the Congress seemed to recall that Indian history, so did the happened because those
of blame. Modi was only echoing right wing. If the Congress secular stalwarts who
In fact, he subtly the phrase used by Rajiv’s enacted economic reforms had the duty to protect
suggests that much of government to explain without a parliamentary democratic institutions in
what is being seen in India the outbreak of violence debate (that happened the country, failed to see
today was set in motion against Sikhs: ‘Even when post hoc), the BJP enacted that institutions cannot be
before the BJP became a baby or a cow is killed in demonetisation without purposefully hollowed out
strident politically. If an accident, the anguish of debate. If the Congress by nepotism, corruption
Rajiv Gandhi rolled back the mob is discernible’. built universities to and repeated assaults, if
secularism to increase The book is a articulate a specific they are to stand the test
the Congress’ appeal disquisition that ideology, so did the BJP. of time.
to Muslim voters, then holds India’s various Komireddi possesses VASUNDHARA SIRNATE
Narendra Modi simply governments to account; it an innate and instinctive, DRENNAN (The Book
doubled down on that is also a work that explains clear-eyed gaze on India. Review, March)

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