New book: Partitions of the Heart – Unmaking the Idea of India


Human rights worker Harsh Mander takes stock of how the Indian republic has failed to uphold the values it set out to achieve.	View in browser

Partitions of the Heart

Unmaking the Idea of India

by Harsh Mander

The Revolutionary Ecological Legacy of Herbert Marcuse

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In Partitions of the Heart: Unmaking the Idea of India, human rights and peace worker Harsh Mander takes stock of whether the republic has upheld the values it set out to achieve and offers painful, unsparing insight into the contours of hate violence. Through vivid stories from his own work, Mander shows that hate speech, communal propaganda and vigilante violence are mounting a fearsome climate of dread, that targeted crime is systematically fracturing our community, and that the damage to the country’s social fabric may be irreparable. At the same time, he argues that hate can indeed be fought, but only with solidarity, reconciliation and love, and when all of these are founded on fairness.

At last a book that turns a powerful searchlight on the evil tide of hatred and violence stalking our country, where our minorities live in fear, and Muslims among us are killed under a government that has declared war on Islam.

—Nayantara Sahgal
journalist, author of Day of Reckoning: Stories (2015)

Harsh Mander’s is the voice of Kabir come alive in our violent times. We can hear it to our redemption, ignore it to our peril.

—Gopalkrishna Gandhi
former administrator and diplomat,
Governor of West Bengal 2004-2009

This book is absolutely mandatory reading. You owe it to the much-vaunted “motherland” which is being abused so shamelessly.

—Kiran Nagarkar
novelist, playwright, film critic and screenwriter

A riveting documentation of the unmaking of India.

—K.R. Meera
Indian author and journalist, who writes in Malayalam

Harsh Mander chillingly unravels the grotesqueness of today’s India. If this book does not awaken you to the horrors of divisive politics propagated, nothing can.

—T.M. Krishna
Indian Carnatic vocalist, writer, activist, author and Ramon Magsaysay awardee

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