The Once and Future RiotJoe Sacco, Jonathan Cape, £20WHEN the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) came to power in India in 2014, riding a wave of far-right and anti-Muslim rhetoric, backed by a corporate media, it seemed like a shocking step backwards. The coronation of the stokers and instigators of communal violence and misinformation in a longstanding democracy was surely an aberration.

For his study of anti-Muslim Muzaffarnagar Riot, HENRY BELL applauds Joe Sacco for a devastatingly effective combination of graphic novel and investigative journalism

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