As India begins the world’s largest exercise in electoral democracy, #thisweekthosebooks has four reads: Ramachandra Guha on modern India’s history; essays that parse the #Modi effect at home and abroad; Aravind Adiga’s Booker-winning novel on the two Indias and how DO you organise such a jumbo election. Please read and share
Iran and #Israel face off. #Gaza’s civilians still bear #Israel’s wrath, six months after the horrors of the Oct 7 Hamas attack. It’s been one year since war broke out in #Sudan. And the #Ukraine-#Russia war is two years…and counting. #thisweekthosebooks on how safe is our world really:
"It’s true, the world map is blotchy with blood and tears"