New Delhi, March 24 -- Admiration for India's First "Subaltern" Prime Minister
Tavleen Singh, one of India's most influential journalists concludes her very recent book "Messiah Modi?" (Harper Collins, Noida, 2020) with these fearsome words, "So much has changed for the worse in so short a time that all that anyone can do is HOPE AGAINST HOPE that India does not continue to move towards totalitarianism" (Singh 276).
Don't make a mistake. The book was not intended to be a criticism of the Modi regime; it was meant to be a recognition of the "class revolution" he symbolized, a true "subaltern" becoming India's Prime Minister for the first time (Ibid 40). In fact, Tavleen Singh sympathizes with most Hindutva points of view, very specially t...