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Post by Guest Wed Nov 06, 2013 5:47 pm

The Chief Minister of Gujarat is never spotted, like other celebrities, sauntering casually towards his car while flinging one-liners into the gun mikes thrust in his face. By now his image-makers have ensured that whenever Narendra Modi enters the scene, his arrival is orchestrated in such a way as if six liveried buglers were heralding a king’s arrival. He makes straight for the head of the table, throwing curt nods and brief waves at those awaiting his arrival. He waits politely, occasionally smoothing his hair carefully or running a hand over his stubble while the master of ceremonies gushes over him before requesting him to take the mike. All this while the eyes in his unsmiling face dart ceaselessly across the room sizing up supporters and potential troublemakers from various enemy camps. He rises, lopes across to the podium and looks around as a classical singer does, inwardly humming the aroh and avroh of the raga he is going to perform. Then, he begins to speak and you realise what a remarkable gift he has for spin doctoring and dodging the real facts with disarming sincerity, while pouring scorn over his opponents. Q&A sessions are rare. His cadres take care to see that the speeches — about the rise and rise of Garvi Gujarat under The Great Leader, the hidden hand of his Opponents in stoking communal riots, the ghettoisation and then appeasement of Muslims, the justification for annihilation of those suspected of terrorist activities — are broadcast worldwide, over and over again, until they begin to be taken seriously even by those who doubted Mr. Modi. They realise of course, that his words may not always be accepted as the only truth but these do obscure the complex truth so well that many begin to doubt their own initial perceptions.

http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/rambogiri-in-the-year-of-the-flood/article4902311.ece

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