Siddhartha Deb

Sep 4, 2024 | thebaffler.com | Lyn Hejinian |J.w. McCormack |Monica Byrne |Siddhartha Deb

Time past tumult-fodder getting wet by the ton plummets up the sky dispersing wild syllables an anarchy of storming signs into systems that can’t be understood for a simple reason that everything is participating loftily or low invading the public sphere with swaggering plasticity of wind swooping in like an eagle from the stratosphere and its buffeting thin soup and chardonnay brought out and down to confessional exaltations and propitious gossip and skeptical advancements over the situated...

Aug 21, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Siddhartha Deb |Shakir Mir |Ajay Saini |Mani Shankar Aiyar

There has been plenty of commentary on the evolution of Hindu nationalism in India over the past decade. Many of these works—with honourable exceptions, of course—tend to frame this story in a linear trajectory, the main themes of which are centred around the origin of the RSS, the Ram Janmabhoomi movement and Babri Masjid demolition, the Gujarat riots and Narendra Modi.

Jun 27, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Siddhartha Deb

Democracy Dies in DarknessSiddhartha Deb is the author of “Twilight Prisoners: The Rise of the Hindu Right and the Fall of India” and the novel “The Light at the End of the World.”What is a writer, even a world-renowned one, against the political needs of an authoritarian political movement suddenly on its heels? World newsEssential reporting from around the worldbackTry a different topicSign in or create a free account to save your preferences

Jun 27, 2024 | flipboard.com | Siddhartha Deb

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May 23, 2024 | scroll.in | Siddhartha Deb

One recent summer morning, I found myself looking for an Indian city that appeared to have vanished. I was in Delhi, arriving there not long after a brutal wave of the pandemic had sent even well-to-do Indians scrambling for oxygen cylinders and hospital beds. Now, as the public health crisis seemed all but forgotten, I made plans to travel to the North Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, hotspot of the pandemic and heartland of Hindu nationalism.