Ks komireddi5/8/2023 ![]() ![]() “The economy is in a really bad slump,” he says starkly. Though no longer the world’s fastest growing large economy, India has often been portrayed as the rising economic powerhouse of the 21st century but Komireddi suggests that the current downturn is not just the cyclical blip that the government claims. It is also a sustained critique of the policies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose Hindu nationalist BJP was re-elected in a landslide in May 2019. Given that he spends much of the year in Hyderabad, the city in which he was born 35 years ago, our meeting is fortuitous Komireddi’s much-praised first book, Malevolent Republic: A Short History of the New India, is a provocative, polemical account of the country’s history since partition. ![]() Kapil Komireddi meets me in the gracious lobby of the Queens Hotel in Cheltenham: we are both here for the Cheltenham Literature Festival. ![]()
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