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It’s open season once again in the long battle of Hind Swaraj against Hindu Rashtra.’
When a new leader comes into power, questions are always raised about the direction in which they will lead the nation. In the case of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his controversial past, the questions are more than aplenty.
Questions about secularism, about not only protecting but valuing minorities, about discrimination, and about freedom of thought and expression are being raised every day. Are we then really moving away from the very ideas that formed the nation we live in today? Is this the ideology that the leader of the country stands behind?
Read on, as Pankaj Mishra and Ananya Vajpeyi attempt to answer these questions.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: Aug/2017
Length : 10 Pages
MRP : ₹15.00
Imprint: Penguin Audio
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Imprint: Penguin
Published: Aug/2017
ISBN: 9789386815491
Length : 10 Pages
MRP : ₹15.00
It’s open season once again in the long battle of Hind Swaraj against Hindu Rashtra.’
When a new leader comes into power, questions are always raised about the direction in which they will lead the nation. In the case of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his controversial past, the questions are more than aplenty.
Questions about secularism, about not only protecting but valuing minorities, about discrimination, and about freedom of thought and expression are being raised every day. Are we then really moving away from the very ideas that formed the nation we live in today? Is this the ideology that the leader of the country stands behind?
Read on, as Pankaj Mishra and Ananya Vajpeyi attempt to answer these questions.
Pankaj Mishra is the author of From the Ruins of Empire and several other books. He is a columnist at Bloomberg View and the New York Times Book Review, and writes regularly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he lives in London.