The Great Indian Manthan State, Statecraft and the Republic (Rethinking India series Vol. 10)

India is rapidly becoming the world’ s largest flailing democracy. India’ s institutional framework has been systematically undermined, from within and without. In the tenth volume of the Rethinking India series, some of India’ s most eminent persons write of how we can think of re-engineering India’ s hardware (redressing structural flaws in India’ s existing institutions, creating new institutions equipped to address fresh challenges and re-engaging all of India’ s systems), as well as ensuring progressive forces radically re-invent their political strategies and operational methodologies to socialize Indians to constitutional values.

Gurdeep Sappal (Anthology Editor)
Gurdeep Sappal is the All India Congress Committee’ s in-charge (administration) and adviser to the Congress president. He was the officer on special duty to the former vice president of India, Hamid Ansari. He was also the former CEO and editor-in-chief of Rajya Sabha TV and is an executive trustee of Samruddha Bharat.

Pushparaj Deshpande (Anthology Editor)
Pushparaj Deshpande is the managing trustee and director of Samruddha Bharat. He has worked on policy and politics with various legislators, a consulting firm, the Rajiv Gandhi Institute for Contemporary Studies and the Congress Party. He is the series editor of the Rethinking India series (Penguin) and the Reshaping India series (Routledge). He writes for numerous dailies. He studied at Oxford University, St Stephen’ s College and Doon School.