Subhash Gatade focuses on the right wing thrust in Indian polity during the
first decade of the 21st century. His writings show that the ultra-right and
Hindu nationalist political formations may have temporarily lost out in the race
to form the government at the Centre and may appear in disarray, but the agenda
of the RSS sponsored Hindutva project for the Hindu rashtra is very much in the
reckoning and enjoys widespread State complicity. The impact of neo-liberalism
and majoritarianism and their consequences for democracy and for the Indian
people are meticulously documented. Above all, he shows what happens when dreams
are deferred. No concerned citizen or