[4] It examines the potential human and economic price that it claims India will be paying for the decisions made in the seven years spent under the BJP government since 2014.

There is a downward trend in all but one of the indices looked at by the author, including those for democracy, human development index, individual rights, rule of law, press freedom, women’s safety, prosperity, civil liberties, corruption and social cohesion.

[6] The book examines the potential human and economic price that it claims India will be paying for the decisions made in the seven years spent under the Modi administration since 2014.

Patel stated that the majority of national resources and wealth will be controlled by a few, the way it has been happening in past few years[7] along with Indian society remaining divided with the minorities forced to ghettoise.

[7] The book lists 19 existing schemes that were launched by the previous Prime Minister Manmohan Singh but were renamed by Modi's government.

However, he also commented that the book "mixes actuality with amnesia", that the author cherry-picked the beginning and end dates while comparing indices, and that he may also have left out some indices showing India in a better light, that the author ignores soaring achievements in renewable energy and startups, and that the data on production of automobiles shows more of a blip than a stagnation.

[1] Journalist Jawed Naqvi in his review for Dawn called the book an "exceptional work" in exposing the performance of the Modi administration.

"[4] Web portal, Moneycontrol in their review, called the book, "a 488 page report card" of Narendra Modi's tenure as the Prime Minister.