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  • By: Gautam Patel
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  • Length: 55 mins
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Summary

A searing manifesto for troubled times in India.

“India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet it is.”

With this provocation, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court sketches the exoskeleton of this improbability—the “Constitutional” idea of India. Justice Patel argues that the devolution of power is necessary for the survival of any liberal democracy, maintaining the idea that “the right to choose one’s own government is the right to dissent”. Decrying the portrayal of politics as sport, Patel elucidates the strategies and tactics used by “nimble” governments to enforce a culture of “broad-spectrum illiberalism”. A champion of transparency in the judiciary, Patel argues that the Internet and the judiciary must serve as beacons in this age of precarity. A timely text that comes at a juncture where liberal democracies across the world are facing existential threats, Undermining the Idea of India is a searing manifesto for our troubled times.
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Don’t bother

This is a self published version of a speech - wish I’d thought of that! Maybe, if you are Indian, or a close follower of recent Indian politics, or know of the author and where he is coming from there are hidden messages that make it riveting. Or maybe it’s just a rambling succession of non sequiturs. Who can tell. Anyway I resent having spent an Audible credit on it. I don’t usually review but I was fooled by the title. I am interested in understanding modern India because it stands in a pivotal position between the BRICs countries and the USA in the new Cold War. Still no wiser.

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