Opinion

Verdict 2019: Future looks tense, says Nayantara Sahgal

What does verdict 2019 mean for India and Indians? In her first reaction after results came out, veteran author and scholar Nayantara Sehgal tells Ashlin Mathew about what she fears

By Ashlin Mathew
Photo Courtesy: PTI
Photo Courtesy: PTI Veteran author Nayantara Sahgal (file photo)

This has been a landmark election, in which the Election Commission, a trusted institution, has already lost its credibility. Advanced technology has enabled massive electoral fraud.

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Our proud, secular and diverse democracy, which has been battered and bloodied in the past five years, is now set to join the ranks of the countries ruled by brute majorities, that have no respect for the Constitution or the law.

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