Malevolent Republic Malevolent Republic The Indian Express. If secularists fail to reclaim the republic from Hindu nationalists, Komireddi argues, India will become Pakistan by another name. Malevolent Republic takes readers on a terrifying and yet illuminating journey through the rapidly transforming political, social and religious landscape of Modi’s India.’. 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. Komireddi(Author) 4. Komireddi Page Find all the books, read about the author, and more. Congress now mimics Modi other parties pray for a miracle. Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India Paperback by K.S. 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. In this blistering critique of India from Indira Gandhi to the present, Komireddi lays bare the cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism. After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehrus diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism.

Since 2014, the ruling BJP has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country. India is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions.

After decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism.

Malevolent Republic by K.S. Komireddi