The "soft power" glues of Bollywood and cricket that were the only shared contemporary popular culture of the diverse peoples of India have already started to come unstuck under steady extremist assault

Substituting these cultural glues and social contracts with Hindutva is the ideological dream project of our rulers. The attempt is likely to leave hard state power and repression as only basis of national unity

The police state is the natural next step in the evolution of our country at present. Economically a wasteland, politically a battlefield, beset by external threats and friendless in the neighborhood having antagonized every friend we had

GDP -23, Covid +4.5 million, jobs lost 12.2 crore, China occupying Indian territory and both sides getting ready for military escalation... I'm afraid the worst is yet to come