Unpolitically Correct: The Politics and Economics of Governance – By Satya Mohanty (Published by Rupa Publications India)

Confront the stark realities of modern India’s financial divide with a fiercely independent, institutional critique of public policy. Published by Rupa Publications India, Unpolitically Correct: The Politics and Economics of Governance by former senior bureaucrat Satya Mohanty delivers an iconoclastic, irreverent, and deeply provocative evaluation of the widening chasm between the nation's wealthiest elite and its struggling majority.

Today, India stands at a critical crossroads, grappling with frightening economic inequality where the top 1 percent of the population commands the lion’s share of national wealth. Drawing from decades of high-level administrative experience within the Indian civil services, Mohanty strips away state-sponsored rhetoric to question a disturbing premise: Is this extreme inequality truly an inevitable byproduct of development, or are the nation's poor systematically being made to pay the price for an avowedly pro-rich policy sweep?

Unpolitically Correct challenges the conventional, comfortable narrative that India's economic reforms are inherently progressive. Instead, Mohanty boldly suggests that current frameworks are structurally engineered to manufacture a designated class of winners and losers. Writing with the sharp clarity of an insider who understands the inner workings of state machinery, he dissects the economic myths perpetuated by successive governments, corporate interest groups, and mainstream academia. From critical welfare pillars to macro-financial systems, the book evaluates governance through a radically different lens: