'Driving the ascendancy of these neo-fascist movements is a myth of victimhood, in which affluent countries are seen as the aggrieved parties, resisting invasions by black and brown foreigners.'

Zorawar Daulet Singh’s 'Powershift' is a timely addition to the literature on a subject of compelling urgency.

Astonishingly, the intensification of political activity in the last couple decades has not led to a wider engagement with what is the single greatest threat that humanity has ever faced: climate change.

After his turn to non-fiction, he would never again look at life outside the West on its own terms: India, the Caribbean and Africa would become faded backdrops on which to project a vision of the West, England in particular.