In modern history, authoritarian regimes have been unable to retain their stranglehold on power. But they have often not gone quietly. The longer the Modi regime endures, the more likely will be its desperation to grasp domination and the more hazardous its actions.

The thrust of the citizenship movement indicates a decline in the rule of law and democracy. It has normalised the extraordinary power of the Modi-led BJP.

Across India, experiments to forge the 'Hindu national community' are predicated on the breakage of minoritised Muslims and Christians, and Adivasis and Dalits. What's happening in Manipur is part of a plan operationalised by the Hindu Right decades ago.

Parvez’s arrest and detention underscore the grave risks confronting human rights defenders today and the use of repressive laws like the UAPA to render them silent.

The use of hate and arbitrary power and calculated killings by Hindu nationalists reveal an ominous disregard for democracy, a forewarning of what is to come.