A New India: The Unmaking of the World's Largest Democracy
By (Author) Rahul Bhatia
Little, Brown Book Group
Abacus
13th August 2024
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Asian history
Constitution: government and the state
Religion and politics
320.454
Paperback
448
Width 232mm, Height 152mm, Spine 34mm
580g
This is a book of narrative reportage six years in the making. It describes how ideology and technological ambition have reshaped India's nascent democracy and follows a diverse cast of people as they navigate questions of identity and belonging.
Rahul Bhatia is an award-winning Indian writer and journalist based in Mumbai, whose work has been published in the New Yorker, Guardian Long Reads, the New York Times, Foreign Policy, Quartz, GQ India and the Wall Street Journal. His profiles and cultural features for The Caravan magazine in India have been anthologised, and his technology investigations are studied at Stanford and other universities. He was on the Reuters global investigations team, where he focused on religion, business, and technology in India under Narendra Modi. He mentors writers and journalists as part of the "South Asia Speaks" collective, and was a co-founder of the Peepli Project, a journalism nonprofit. A former art director, Rahul Bhatia graduated in communication design from Pratt Institute, New York.
He's the forthcoming recipient of a prestigious Radcliffe Fellowship from the Harvard Radcliffe Institute and will spend fall 2022 through to spring 2023 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He tweets @rahulabhatia, where he has 14,000 followers.