Twilight Prisoners

Auteur

Born in Shillong, north-eastern India, Siddhartha Deb lives in Harlem, New York. His fiction and nonfiction have been longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Orwell Prize. Deb has been awarded the Pen Open prize and the Anthony Veasna So Fiction Prize from N+1. His journalism and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The New Republic, Dissent, The Baffler, N+1, and Caravan.

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**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.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his party—a formation explicitly drawing on European fascism—has deftly exploited modern technologies, the media, and market forces to launch a relentless campaign on minorities, women, dissenters, and the poor. Deb profiles these people, as well as those fighting back, including writers, scholars, and journalists. Twilight Prisoners 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.

Contenu

Introduction: The India Racket
Chapter 2. What is India? Why India’s Boom Years Have Been a Bust
Chapter 3. The Violence, Insecurity, and Rage of Narendra Modi
Chapter 4. Arundhati Roy: The Renegade
Chapter 5. The Killing of Gauri Lankesh
Chapter 6. The Worst Industrial Disaster in the History of the World
Chapter 7. Nowhere Land: Along India’s Border, a Forgotten Burmese Rebellion
Chapter 8. Those Mythological Men and Their Sacred Supersonic Flying Temples
Chapter 9. The Detention Centers of Assam
Chapter 10. India’s Political Prisoners
Chapter 11. The Temple and The Mosque
Conclusion