The battle for 2019 is not about replacing one government with another, says former Minister in the Manmohan Singh-led UPA government Manish Tewari in his new book, and asks whether it will herald the demise of national ethos and the rise of a different vision of India.

The book, "Fables of Fractured Times", a compendium of his published articles on subjects ranging from governance, media, economy, democracy and geopolitics, carries a new Introduction in which Tewari writes about the events leading up to the partition of India and then traces the rise of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in mainstream politics.