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Dr Partha Banerjee, a former member of the Sangh Parivar, has written this book. In this book, Dr Banerjee critically discusses the Sangh Parivar organizations and deals with such issues like the future of the Indian secularism and democracy as well as human rights, women’s rights and minority rights. According to the author, the book is a reminder of the responsibilities of the citizens of India for the future of a progressive and secular India.

The various chapters of his book meticulously unfold the day-to-day functioning and year-to-year growth of the Sangh Parivar-an insider’s tale of final disenchantment. He says: “I am scared today. When I think about the Sangh now, a nightmarish metaphor comes to my mind. I keep perceiving them as a continuously expanding creature like some mutated ominous insect inside an ancient cocoon-an insect that has mutated only to expand and eat everything it grabs but never to come out of its shell. It does it so slowly but surely that although it is potentially a great danger, nobody understands how perilous it is-one reason is that nobody can see it. But the insect keeps growing and mutating and devouring anything it gets. It nourishes itself from all the youthfulness and freshness of its surrounding nature and becomes bigger, stronger, and uglier.”