Secular India’s ideal has been ravaged by Modi’s regime

Evidence

“Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.” The despair that Albert Camus romanticized gradually ate away at the beauty of Bourdain’s life and at that sublime “idea of India” as a secular nation, an idea now ravaged by the Modi regime. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 424

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the ‘idea of India’ as a secular-nation ideal now being dismantled — a central conceptual frame for the chapter.