I thought the nation was coming to an end,' wrote Khushwant Singh, looking back
on the violence of Partition that he was witness to over half a century ago. He
believed then, and for years afterwards, that he had seen the worst that India
could do to herself. Over the last few years, however, he has had reason to feel
that the worst, perhaps, is still to come. In this fierce, uncompromising book
he shows us what few of us wish to see: why it is entirely likely that India
will come undone in the foreseeable future.
Analysing the communal violence in Gujarat in 2002,