In India, the Narendra Modi-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government, which is dominated by Modi’s right-wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), is celebrating three years in government. Around six of every seven Members of Parliament (MP) from NDA belong to BJP. A cursory look at the celebrations in the country will tell us that this is a celebration of Modi’s ascension to power. The Indian media has made a general tilt to the right or at best, has decided to become a silent spectator of the NDA government’s policies and actions. So there is plenty to read in terms of celebratory accolades coming from Pakistan’s eastern border. What is often bemoaned is a shrinking public space in India to discuss the weakening of the social and political-economic foundations of the country and a reimagining of ‘development’ with its new roots firmly grounded in neoliberal Hindutva, or neoliberal radical Right-wing Hindu religious conservatism. There are several tenets of the imagined geographies of a new India. First is the newfound adoration for the Indian military, loathing of Pakistan and peace activists in India, and an unabashed embracing of Hindu political conservatism. In India-Occupied Kashmir, recently, an Indian military officer used a Kashmiri person as a human shield against a stone-pelting crowd during local elections. The officer was honored by the Indian army chief for his actions. In fact, the Indian Army chief recently expressed regret at not being able to respond more aggressively in Kashmir because Kashmiris were merely pelting stones. The NDA government has watched without blinking an eyelid the Indian Army’s radicalization and lack of respect for the rule of law. While militarization of and human rights violations in India-Occupied Kashmir are not recent news, these developments are a new low and bring into question India’s record of a substantially limited role of the military in its civil society and the Indian military personnel’s ability to assist with peace operations globally. The RSS is brazenly working with BJP governments at the centre and in states to re-write our history omitting references to India’s rich Islamic past and political work of leaders like Nehru, Gandhi, and Ambedkar Second is the NDA government’s abysmal record in ushering in development for those who need it the most. In India, since the NDA government came to power in May 2014, the unemployment rate has increased and the informal sector of the economy has expanded i.e. the number of “casual” or informal laborers has increased as against workers in the formal sector of the economy. Demonetisation or elimination of certain rupee denominations by the government has wreaked havoc in the lives of the poor; there has been a marked decrease in the revenues of small and medium businesses and jobs in these and the informal sector more generally, have been lost. Commitments made to farmers to increase farm profits to 50 percent over costs have reneged. The services sector in India, especially Information Technology (IT) and IT Enabled Services have fired and will continue to fire employees and not create new jobs, in part, due to automation. This is the sector that created the 21st century urban middle-class India and continues to vehemently support the incumbent Prime Minister. Within India, several industry leaders are raising questions about the employability of Indian engineers. While the NDA government cannot possibly be blamed for the latter two, they have done little to respond to the current crisis in employment in the country. Finally and perhaps most importantly, is the fact that the election of the NDA government at the center and BJP governments in various large states in north India has stroked the darkest sectarian instincts in the Indian body politic. At the receiving end of the wrath of both right-wing Hindu mobs and the troll army of BJP supporters online, have been Muslims; lower-caste, formerly untouchable Hindu communities; women; and progressive academics, journalists, and community organisers. It is beyond reason that the palate of people in a secular republic is now being violently policed by radical Hindu vigilantes. The NDA government and their supporters have been taking the lead to mark any dissenting voice as ‘anti-national’. The government is making efforts to vanquish liberal public discourse and turn anything ‘liberal’ into diabolical outcaste and on the other hand plain incompetent ministers and bureaucrats are being appointed to positions of power. Amidst all of this, the intellectual powerhouse of BJP, the RashtriyaSwayamsevakSangh, is brazenly working with central and state BJP governments to re-write Indian and regional history bereft of the country’s rich Islamic past; erase the legacy and political work of leaders like Nehru, Gandhi, and Ambedkar; and valorize symbols of a mythical Hindu India, such as the cow and ‘Mother India’. At this point in its history, the very idea of India as a tolerant, secular, democratic republic is at stake. The Indian people must act to save the country from the Indian Right for the country’s sake and for a stable, progressive, and inclusive South Asia for the present and our future. Pronoy Rai is with the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science at the University of Illinois, USA