Twilight Prisoners
Author: Siddhartha Deb
ISBN: 9798888901267
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Year first published: 21 Aug 2024
Pages: 288
Format: Hardback
ISBN: 9798888901267
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Year first published: 21 Aug 2024
Pages: 288
Format: Hardback
An incisive, lyrical, and deeply reported account of India's descent into authoritarianism.
Traveling across India, interviewing Hindu zealots, armed insurgents, jailed dissidents, and politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum, Siddhartha Deb reveals a country in which forces old and new have aligned to endanger democracy. The result is an absorbing-and disturbing-portrait. India has become a religious fundamentalist dystopia, one depicted here with a novelist's precise language and eye for detail.
sounds the alarm now that the world's largest democracy is under threat in ways that echo the fissures in the United States, United Kingdom, and so-called democracies the world over.