Debashish Roy Chowdhury and John Keane's 'To Kill a Democracy' deals with the question how democracies get killed and dismisses the commonplace perspective of the “breakdowns” https://thewire.in/books/has-india-ever-been-a-democracy
The book is replete with the statistics on a gamut of issues that map up people’s lives with dignity. They are: healthcare, hunger, environmental hazards, lethal traffic, dismal public education, the torpor of the justice system, election coercion, the media’s collusion in amplifying “nationalist” narratives, persistence of casteism, the harassment and imprisonment of journalists and academics accused of “anti-nationalist” activities, sexual and gender-based violence, and recent changes to the Constitution itself, which, under the current Hindu nationalist government, have systematically targeted the sizeable Muslim minority.
