As with Lucifer, its maxim is, 'I will not serve.'" Book: Twilight falls on liberalism. TWILIGHT FALLS ON LIBERALISM By Rudrangshu Mukherjee, Aleph, Rs 399. His two latest books are Nehru and Bose: Parallel Lives (2014) and Twilight Falls on Liberalism (2018). The most depressing feature of this potential dissolution of liberalism is that it seems almost inevitable. 20 January 2019, 01:30 AM. Twilight? Fukuyama saw the death of communism in Eastern Europe as presaging the death of authoritarianism everywhere. Rudrangshu Mukherjee's Twilight Falls on Liberalism, as the name suggests, diagnoses the present political conjuncture – from Trump to Brexit and Modi – as one where liberal ideas such as freedom tolerance and fellow feeling " seem to be under a shadow " (p. ix). Rudrangshu Mukherjee is Chancellor and Professor of History at Ashoka University, India. Introduction and moderation of the Q&A by Vidhya Raveendranathan, Center for Global Asia Doctoral Fellow, NYU Shanghai. It is not a conspiracy nor the result of a tyrant’s whim, but rather the collective outcome of myriad rational decisions. He has written extensively on the revolt of 1857 and on other themes related to modern Indian history. 3). Let me straight away confess that this topic for today’s 2 on 1 Friday posts by Shackman and me has been inspired by a remarkable book by Rudrangshu Mukherjee, “Twilight Falls On Liberalism”.It is a concise book which one can easily finish reading in one sitting if one is not distracted by domestic chores etc. Two noteworthy recent books, Rudrangshu Mukherjee’s Twilight Falls on Liberalism and David Runciman’s How Democracy Ends, predict a bleak future for democracy and liberalism.Mukherjee calls ours “the worst of times, perhaps”, believing the liberal values of freedom of speech and dissent, tolerance and respect for institutions of democracy, are under attack. 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