India: Intimations of an Ending

Racism And Discrimination

The rise of Modi and the Hindu far right.

By Arundhati Roy

November 22, 2019 

 

            

Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) workers participate in a rally in Guwahati on January 21, 2018. (AFP via Getty Images / Biju Boro)

"In India today, a shadow world is creeping up on us in broad daylight. It is becoming more and more difficult to communicate the scale of the crisis even to ourselves. An accurate description runs the risk of sounding like hyperbole. And so, for the sake of credibility and good manners, we groom the creature that has sunk its teeth into us—we comb out its hair and wipe its dripping jaw to make it more personable in polite company. India isn’t by any means the worst, or most dangerous, place in the world—at least not yet—but perhaps the divergence between what it could have been and what it has become makes it the most tragic."

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