A review by dinojah
AZADI: Fascism, Fiction & Freedom in the Time of the Virus by Arundhati Roy
challenging
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
4.25
The Constitution calls India a secular socialist republic. We use the word 'secular' in a slightly different sense from the rest of the world - for us, it's code for a society in which all religions have equal standing in the eyes of the law. in practice, India has been neither secular nor socialist. In effect, it has always functioned as an upper-caste Hindu state.
Graphic: Hate crime, Islamophobia, and Police brutality