Nayantara Sahgal writes on the 2019 election results

June 19, 2019 13:48

'Now that the dust has settled on India's most hard-fought national election, and it has been hailed as a spectacular democratic victory, it is possible to take a quiet look at the election result. It was no surprise to me for I had not only expected it but realised it could have gone no other way. I had the help of literature in seeing it as a story with only one possible ending,' writes novelist and commentator Nayantara Sahgal in the Indian Express.

Specifically, she refers to two literary works, Gabriel Garcia Marquez's The Chronicle of a Death Foretold and Yale University philosophy professor Jason Stanley's How Propaganda Works and How Fascism Works, to foresee the 2019 election results.

You can read her article, here.

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