Ideas of India

Prasanna Mohanty's thought-provoking exploration of the contemporary political life highlights how the current regime has failed to uphold the political values nurtured over the past seven decades

Attack on the 'Idea of India': A Decade of Social, Political and Economic Strife

Author: Prasanna Mohanty

Publisher: Black Eagle Books

Price: Rs 899

This book makes a serious attempt to trace the nature of political-economic changes that have been introduced by the Modi-led Bharatiya Janata Party-National Democratic (BJP-NDA) alliance in the last 10 years. The author identifies the “idea of India” as a vantage point to offer a methodically organised, factually substantiated and deeply engaging narrative. Divided in 12 chapters, the book makes three persuasive sets of findings.

First, the post-2014 regime has converted the “rule of law” into what the author calls “rule