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Mahatma Gandhi raised, in 1920, a specter of fear in many hearts with his strategy of mobilizing the masses for the freedom struggle. Many perceived a danger to their supremacy in the ancient social order. To ward off the march of time, they dreamt of unifying various, diverse and innumerable religious beliefs in India under a central authority to impose uniformity to retain their social supremacy. The Muslims, settled for nearly 700 years and integral part of society, were readily available symbols for hatred needed for mobilization. The communalized approach became instrument and an army of uniformed young volunteers indoctrinated to only obey became its battle unit. Its upsurge in 1990 was due to paving of its path by the Rajiv Gandhi regime that took religious fervor to a new pitch through screening for more than three years of religion based serials of mythical heroes. The political wing could head the coalition only after it suspended its communalized approach by pushing its fire raising issues to back burner. However it got the temporary relief of power when the Indian youth was already on road to a major social and psychic transformation due to lures of the global economic picture, the expanded education and spreading mediums that brought home the new world. The economic prosperity became their objective. They baited less on divine apparitions for their life goals but more on learning from what the Indians were achieving in the Silent Valley and elsewhere is the world. In this transformation was written the story of decline of the communalized politics. India is on way to become a super power. This book depicts the transition of Indian society from the communalized politics to a modernizing entity. About the Author Vijay Sanghvi (b. 1939) has created a niche for himself in his five decade long career as a perspective reporter and critics of political, economic and social developments since he joined the profession in 1962. Sanghvi has worked for various dailies and journals of Gujarat and Maharashtra and has been regularly contributing to several national and international journals. He has many news breaks to his credit and is one of the few who has had an insider's view of epoch-making events in the corridors of power in Delhi. He has experience of coverage of Indian parliament for more than 45 years. He has already penned three other books in English or politics in India and also in Gujarati on social issues. He also manages a school for children of the Okhla slum in Delhi for the past decade.