Undermining The Idea Of India

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. â€.  With this provocation, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court sketches the exoskeleton of this improbabilityâ€the “Constitutionalâ€. 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 oneâ€s own government is the right to dissent. â€. Decrying the portrayal of politics as sport, Patel elucidates the strategies and tactics used by “nimbleâ€. governments to enforce a culture of “broad-spectrum illiberalism. â€. 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.