#Modi Again: An Ex-communist's Manifesto

Aabhas Maldahiyar voted against Narendra Modi in 2014. He had been radicalized into Marxist ideology at college, saw Arvind Kejriwal as a savior, and considered Modi a mass murderer. Then a study tour to the Ajanta Caves started pulling the frame apart. The transformation that followed — from convinced communist to self-described Modi supporter — is what this book documents: not a conversion engineered by propaganda, but an argument with himself that took years.

Maldahiyar works through the specific claims he held as a Marxist and tracks where each one collapsed against his own observation and research. India's rise to become the third-fastest growing economy, the nature of Modi's foreign policy, the gap between the Left's model of India and the India he was actually living in — each element is examined from the vantage point of someone who did not start out sympathetic and knows exactly what the counter-arguments are.

Readers across the political spectrum will find here not a hagiography but a reckoning: an honest account of what it takes to change your mind about something you once held with certainty.