


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. Indian democracy, honed over decades, is now the chief enabler of Hindu extremism. Since 2014, the ruling BJP has unleashed forces that are irreversibly transforming the country.

India is collapsing under the weight of its own contradictions. Komireddi as he presents his book Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, Saturday, April 10, at 4 PM on the WBW YouTube channel!Īfter decades of imperfect secularism, presided over by an often corrupt Congress establishment, Nehru's diverse republic has yielded to Hindu nationalism. Please join us for a virtual event with K.
