Married to the Mob: What ails Narendra Modi's India?

by Guest Sat Jun 11, 2016 7:53 am

In the two years since he was elected prime minister, Modi’s stock has fallen considerably at home. Some of this was inevitable. He invited unreasonably high expectations upon himself with a carefully calculated presidential-style campaign, especially since he then became the first prime minister to enjoy a clear majority in the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of Parliament, in 30 years. But the sense of a missed opportunity also has much to do with how passive Modi has been with his stock of political capital — not just in an economic sense, but also in providing direction and self-definition to a diverse, rapidly liberalizing society and still-maturing democracy.

Two years is enough time for the temper of a regime to emerge. And it’s not a pretty one. Modi’s India has been revealed to be a depressing stage on which the demons of religious bigotry and hypernationalism hover unsleepingly over the vital debates of a society in transition. The prime minister has an unresolved — and on the current evidence, unresolvable — paradox. He wants to modernize India (“vikaas,” or “development,” remains the word he deploys the most) without in any way refashioning or reimagining the Hindu-conservative ideology through which he and his party understand the world. The result is that he drags India forward with one hand and backward with another.

http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/06/06/modi-hindu-nationalism-rss-bjp-congress-democracy/

by Merlot Daruwala Sun Jun 12, 2016 6:50 am

Good one. Thanks.

by Guest Sun Jun 12, 2016 7:58 am

Merlot Daruwala wrote:Good one. Thanks.

do you have any prediction for the 2019 General Election?

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