To Kill A Democracy | Debasish Roy Chowdhury & John Keane

To Kill a Democracy: India’s Passage to Despotism
With a unique narrative combining moving life stories and scholarly insight, a journalist and a political theorist have teamed up to offer a radical re-appraisal of #Indianpolitics and society. They discuss India’s passage to despotism not just in terms of shrinking civil rights and captured and broken governing institutions, but also from the perspective of welfare provisions and economic and social well-being.
#DebasishRoyChowdhury and #JohnKeane reject the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi’s populism.
DEBASISH ROY CHOWDHURY
#DebasishRoyChowdhury has written extensively on #Indianpolitics, society, and geopolitics. A journalist based in Hong Kong, he has lived and worked in Calcutta, Sao Paulo, Hua Hin, Bangkok, and Beijing. He is a Jefferson Fellow and a recipient of multiple media awards, including the Human Rights Press Award and the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA) award
JOHN KEANE
#JohnKeane is Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the WZB (Berlin). He is renowned globally for his creative thinking about democracy, and is the author of a number of distinguished books including The Life and Death of Democracy (Simon & Schuster, 2009), When Trees Fall, Monkeys Scatter (2017) and The New Despotism (Harvard University Press, 2020). He was nominated for the 2021 Balzan Prize and the Holberg Prize for outstanding global contributions to the human sciences.
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[@iampaix]

Always wondered how India lost her independence.This is how it starts Mir Jafars Like Mr.Roy ,collaborate with the Whites like John to create a scenario to take over.
Hope Indians learn from their past & not fall for these Seemingly well meaning folks with Hidden Agenda .
Atrocity literature is how British took over most of the world , hope we Indians stay strong & not fall for these Outsiders based out of Hong Kong , on Chinese money talking of Indian Democracy

[@diwakarmsg2061]

😅 hilarious!

[@anikethchakraborty3238]

Well said

[@kakimadhavarao4641]

Very informative and provocative session.
Madhavarao

[@kozhaitv5225]

Is India a country first? if you put a tonne of gooseberries in a sack and tie it , it looks like a package. Just open it and you will find every item rolling in different directions. I have visited several countries and felt like a foreigner there. Reasonable. But within India, I felt like a foreigner too in every state from north to south, east to west. Why this disparity? Is it reasonable to redraw the state boundaries and reduce it to just ,say, 5 states with equal number of political representations? We should never have petty kings and chieftains called chief ministers , living in their cocoons called states. There are many states where people openly abuse the constitution but it doesn't get noticed due to language constraints. Indian Constitution is supreme and sacred and violation of it goes unpunished due to lack of a monitoring system.

[@TheContrariann]

ENLIGHTENING !!
Thank you very much for this session !

[@c.narsingraj5438]

Extraordinary session.

[@c.narsingraj5438]

Sure sir,we will buy the book