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February 1, 2011 · by m rajshekhar

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Out on 18 January, 2021

Reviews

Uday Balakrishnan (Biblio): “…a critical enquiry
into why representative
government in India is
flagging.” (This reviewer is more bullish on present-day India than I am).

N Kalyan Raman (Scroll.in): “…strives for an understanding of the factors that enable governments and political parties to function in a way that is seemingly hostile to the interests of the very public they have been elected to serve, a gross anomaly in an electoral democracy.”

KRA Narasiah (The Hindu): “M. Rajshekhar’s deeply researched book… holds a mirror to Indian democracy, and finds several cracks.”

Rohit Chandra (Open): “…excels at connecting the local to the national.”

T Sundararaman (Seminar): ‘…refreshingly new writing on the play between India’s dysfunctional democracy and its development challenges…‘ (Fifth review on webpage)

Suhit Kelkar (Business Standard Weekend): “A patient mapping and thorough analysis of the Indian system’s horrific flaws…” (Image here)

G. Pramod (Malayala Manorama): “33 മാസം, 6 സംസ്ഥാനങ്ങൾ, 120 റിപ്പോർട്ടുകൾ: ജനാധിപത്യം തേടി മഹത്തായ ഇന്ത്യൻ യാത്ര… (33 months, 6 states, 120 reports: Great Indian journey in search of democracy…)”

Mohammad Sajjad (www.qindeelonline.com): “Hindustan ki maujooda siyasi wa maaashi soorat e hal”

Sandeep Dikshit (The Tribune): “What emerges is the image of a state that is extractive, dominant, casteist and clientelist.”

Manas Chakravarty (www.moneycontrol.com): “…reporting at its best. The picture that emerges is of a democracy that has been hijacked by vested interests, interested only in power and pelf.“

Book events

21 May: Hyderabad Lit Fest with Kaveree Bamzai and Aniruddha Bahal.

28 March: Paalam Books, Salem, Tamil Nadu.

19 March: The News Minute, “Citizens, the State, and the idea of India”

6 March: Pen@Prithvi, with Suhit Kelkar

20 February: A discussion between scholars Usha Ramanathan, Tridip Suhrud, MS Sriram and me to formally launch Despite the State

6 February: DogEars Bookshop, Margoa

5 February: The Polis Project, Dispatches with Suchitra Vijayan

30 January: Founding Fuel, “Systems Thinking, State Capacity and Grassroots Development”

25 January: Miranda House Literary Society

Interviews

The News Minute. “Democratic decay at state level: Journalist M Rajshekhar on book ‘Despite the State’”

Asialyst. “Covid-19 en Inde : “des décès de masse” dont un “État obscurantiste est responsable“

Allusions, mentions

“The Future of Entertainment“, Kaveree Bamzai, Open.

“On What India’s Watching“, Prathyush Parasuraman, Substack.

“The puppeteers around us“, Karthik Venkatesh, Deccan Herald.

“Will TN election manifestos continue ‘populist’ welfare schemes?“, Anna Isaac, The News Minute.

“Why wages-for-housework won’t help women“, V Geetha, Indian Express.

“The poor state of the Indian state“, Arun Maira, The Hindu.

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