Indian polity in the emergency room

December 26, 2012 14:09

The recent re-election of Narendra Modi and his party to the state legislature in Gujarat for the third time, preceded by the horrific gang-rape and near-murder of a young girl and her male companion in a Delhi bus, are both developments that ought to be read as alarms going off to indicate the high, almost catastrophic, degree to which the Indian polity is in a state of crisis. Read

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