
Komireddi charts the unsound course of Indian nationalism: its cowardly concessions to the Hindu right, convenient distortions of India’s past and demeaning bribes to India’s minorities. In this blistering critique of post-Independence India from Nehru to Modi, K.S.

The ‘invisible threads’ Nehru said held together an improbable union divided by language, religion and ethnicity have snapped under the burden of Modi’s Hindu-supremacist rule. Under Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party, India has undergone the most total transformation since 1991.
