Narendra Modi – Reprised

Originally dated: 28-09-2013

In 2013, I had something to say about Narendra Modi. It’s 2015, and I’m all admiration for the long-sightedness I possessed two years ago. 😉

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What can be said about a man whose biography on Wikipedia says, ‘the neutrality of this article is disputed’?

  That the man must be Narendra Modi. 

Are you asking why? Well, Narendra Modi is so much Godliness packed into a man, that any word that depreciates his stature as a Saint in the Wikipedia article MUST, in fact, be disputed. Or taken off.

VIBRANT GUJARAT!

Mankind needs a hero to worship every now and then.  It had been a long time since the appearance of such a hero in India, until, in 1950, God heard our prayers and sent us Modi. (He meets the criteria maxime for becoming PM : he’s successfully crossed his sixties, and so have his ideas.)

Lord Narendra Modi , our touted prime  minister – to – be is  the 11234^th incarnation of Lord Vishnu, the preserver of our universe, and will put an end to all of the Hindu nation’s sufferings.

He will convert the whole of India into the dream nation called Gujarat. There’ll be streams of milk, more butter on our toast,  and richer people for the poor to beg to.

Modi’s record tenure as Chief Minister  in Gujarat make him the unquestionable candidate for prime minister, as it was under his governance that Gujarat really transformed overnight into the hub of all economic prosperity in India. Almost suddenly, the sub-arid Gujarat started teeming with agricultural expansions, thanks to Modi’s well thought out infrastructural plans for irrigation and water conservation. His tenure saw the literacy rate of the state soaring, the power sector flourishing, and of course, Gujarat attaining THE record growth rate. While some of these changes are apparent to us, some are testified by statistics.

But what if the statistics are false or half – true? What if Gujarat has always been a fast – developing nation and Modi’s contribution to it is blown out of proportion?  It might be, there’s a good chance. But we have to get on with our lives, and the elections are nearing, so let’s continue Modi-phancying and assuming them all to be true. I heard Bihar and Tamil Nadu are actually trailing ahead of Gujarat in terms of that figure, what do we call it again? Growth rate figure, yes.  But my vote goes to Modi for his excellent PR and Marketing Machinery.  Just like in advertisements for fairness creams, they show already fair girls getting fairer, his marketing team only painted the rosy picture of the already wealthy getting wealthier. So what if the majority of our people live a sub – standard existence  ‘BPL’ ?  It’s the rich people who pay taxes at the end of the day, isn’t it ?

India’s in the doldrums as it is, let us at least be happy for Gujarat.

Since Lord Modi is also a very enthusiastic Hindutwa – propagator (what else do you expect products of the RSS to be?), his philosophy on nation – building is particularly very interesting. Now, obviously, Hinduism is the superior religion. It’s the Lord’s word. Only Modi can pull off the paradox of being a Hindu nationalist in a multi – cultural country like India. Perhaps the nation for him consists of Hindus exclusively. Perhaps he needs to realize what worked in Gujarat might not work for the rest of the country. Perhaps his dog ate the the page of his social sciences textbook where they talked about ‘Unity in Diversity’. But WHY  do we have to continuously talk about cultural integration in the country? Is Modi responsible

for that? No. Is our prime minister responsible for that? He’s supposed to be. But Modi is going to be Prime Minister.

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