Reviled, harassed, abused: Narendra Modi’s most trenchant critic speaks out

When I talked to the journalist Rana Ayyub in her Mumbai home last Wednesday she was calmer than she was when I had spoken to her three days earlier. But that is not saying much. Last Sunday her words were jumbled, her voice on edge. She said she had not slept. That she could not eat or keep food down. That she had had thoughts of self-harm.“I was on a plane yesterday and I said to my brother, ‘