India operates in the gap between what society considers morally acceptable and what is legally permitted. While instances of blatant corruption can still shock, the idea of corruption in India is not condemned in its totality.

Its cultural apparatus (for all its finely marketed rebellion) ultimately serves the same aim. 

Despite a live-streamed genocide, international support for Israel from its key allies does not seem to be waning.

The US has retained near complete control over determining the situations where extraterritorial assassinations are acceptable.

Straying from its intended goal, the discourse around decolonisation devolved into a series of battlegrounds for the imposition of fresh hegemonies by the central government in the name of anti-western thinking.

Tackling this new system will require more than police action. It will require a complete unwinding of this system of discrimination, including the discriminatory laws that sit at their heart. 

We can continue to advocate for our safety within the group-based framework, in the full knowledge that this will, at best, protect us from a fraction of the entirety of the violence we face, or we can break from the trappings of our existing class, caste and modern quasi-caste groupings, assert our individual rights, and challenge sexual violence within our own groups.

While there is nothing official about these accounts (at least on the face of it), it is undeniable that the positions driven by these accounts today shape perceptions of India and Indians in the global public imagination.

A parliament with no one party with a clear majority also means a return to the days of more parliamentary influence on governance, where cross coalition consensus has to be built for new legislation.

While politics is more than electoral politics and must include every means by which the residents of a country engage with their government, the mainstreaming of on-ground protest and the sidelining of the electoral process speaks to a loss of institutional credibility that goes beyond a single government.

The last 20 years have seen a significant evolution in the discourse surrounding the idea of Palestinian liberation.

While the rhetoric is reminiscent of the post-9/11 days, it is useful to remember that the world is not the same.

We don't address serious geopolitical issues and focus instead on petty actions like banning Pakistani artists from Bollywood and demanding our cricketers and cricket fans be discourteous to theirs.

The meat of the book lies in the deeply intimate portrait Harry paints of his rather private, very dysfunctional family – a brother with unhealthy sibling rivalry issues, an amiable but distant father and a wicked stepmother.