This chapter focuses on the current populist-authoritarian impasse in India to argue that while New Materialism contains helpful insights, this situation has a heady mix of all the key propositions of Civil Sphere Theory (CST), including culture, universal solidarity, performance, civilizational codes, going global, and social movements for civil repair. Here, rightwing populist-authoritarianism has ‘appropriated’ latent tropes of transcendental justice and civil solidarity, while in a relational sense secular-constitutional oriented social movements/discourses have assumed or get projected in more sectarian proportions. The current populist-authoritarian regime in India has all those key ingredients towards which CST points. There is an impending need to rework secular sectarianism to breach the authoritarian civil sphere, which New Materialism also helps us to understand. There is, however, a possibility that the fault lines between civil and uncivil could be redrawn from within the interstices of the convergence between secular sectarianism and populist-authoritarianism and the continued imperatives of civil repair, as CST reminds us.