THE CROOKED TIMBER OF NEW INDIA ESSAYS ON A REPUBLIC IN CRIS IBD

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?It is close to nine years since the Narendra Modi-led BJP swept into power. A new era beganin May 2014, or so we were told... But India is, in fact, facing a crisis. Our polity, societyand economy are all broken. The signs are all around us.?At a time when a compromised media and the ruling party?s digital armywork 24/7 to overwhelm our public discourse with pro-establishment noise,Parakala Prabhakar is an unabashedly critical voice, determined to speaktruth to power. In these essays written over almost three years-from 2020to 2023-he looks closely at facts and data and analyses events and publicstatements to show why he fears for the future of our democracy, socialharmony and economy.In the Prime Minister?s Independence-Day speeches from 2014 to 2022,and the speeches of the RSS chief, in the unemployment and inequalitystatistics that the government supresses, in the partisan role of investigativeagencies and the income tax department, in the new BJP?s?tiraskar? or clearrejection of India?s Muslims as citizens and voters, in the mishandling of theCOVID-19 pandemic-in these and many more developments, ParakalaPrabhakar finds unmistakable evidence of religious majoritarianism, a creepingauthoritarianism and serious economic mismanagement.And he shows us whysilence and complacency are no longer an option for any citizen invested inthe future of our Republic.This no-holds-barred, urgent book helps us connect the dots and see the truepicture of the?New India? being fashioned before our eyes.