Rohit Azad teaches Economics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.

Shouvik Chakraborty is Assistant Research Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Srinivasan Ramani is Associate Editor at The Hindu.

Dipa Sinha teaches at School of Liberal Studies, Ambedkar University Delhi.

List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Foreword
Jayati Ghosh

Acknowledgements

Introduction
Rohit Azad, Srinivasan Ramani, Shouvik Chakraborty, and Dipa Sinha

 PART I: THE ECONOMY

1. Modi Sarkar: The Truth about Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas
Rohit Azad

2. Breaking Bad: India’s Banking Distress
Prasenjit Bose and Zico Dasgupta

3. The NDA-II Regime and the Worsening Agrarian Crisis
Arindam Banerjee and Ishan Anand

4. Employment Under the NDA-II Regime: A Reality Check
Subhanil Chowdhury

 PART II: SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS

5. School Education: Denials and Delusions
Kiran Bhatty

6. The Price of Freedom: The NDA-II Government’s Report Card on Higher Education
Ayesha Kidwai

7. Painting a Picture of Ill-health
Indranil Mukhopadhyay and Dipa Sinha

8. Big-Bang Programmes for Women’s Welfare: An Evaluation
Sona Mitra

9. Samajik Nyay and Samajik Samrasata?
Amit Thorat

10. Environmental Policies Delinked from Aam Aadmi: Is the Mask of Environmentalism Falling?
Shouvik Chakraborty

 PART III: GOVERNANCE

11. Suit-Boot ki Sarkar and its ‘Battle’ against Corruption
Roshan Kishore

12. Aadhaa(r) Adhura Welfare: A Critical Assessment
Anmol Somanchi

13. The NDA-II Government’s Foreign and Security Policy: A Critical Assessment
Happymon Jacob

14. Damaging the Public Sphere: A Toxic Legacy of the NDA-II Regime
Srinivasan Ramani

Notes on the Contributors