His predecessor said Narendra Modi would be a disaster as prime minister. This book shows how. It concedes Modi’s popularity. This is an accounting of his damage. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Aakar Patel is a syndicated columnist who has edited English and Gujarati newspapers. His translation of Saadat Hasan Manto’s Urdu non-fiction, Why I Write, was published by Tranquebar in 2014. His study of majoritarianism in India, Our Hindu Rashtra: What It Is. How We Got Here, was published by Westland in 2020. He is Chair of Amnesty International India.