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Mihir Sharma: If Modi does not deliver on the dreams he has sold, he will enrage an already frustrated generation

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Mihir Sharma: If Modi does not deliver on the dreams he has sold, he will enrage an already frustrated generation Empty Mihir Sharma: If Modi does not deliver on the dreams he has sold, he will enrage an already frustrated generation

Post by Guest Sun May 18, 2014 8:26 am

And so we must ask: what is this that happened here? What is there in Modi, that he has received the adulation and approval of a nation on a level denied to anyone since Indira Gandhi? In small towns and villages, the most aggressive pro-Modi voices are young men brimming over with anger. This is the youth bulge of North India; those too young to remember 1984, or even 1991 in some cases. India's history has finally caught up to their arrival. They were always going to make their mark on this country - bulge generations do, just consider the Boomers in America.

Modi speaks to these young men in a way nothing in their lives ever has. He speaks of an India where there is no unemployment, which some of them believe is already banished from Gujarat. He speaks of an India which is so intimidating that China and Pakistan will not dare cross it; and they believe that, if Modi can face down the media, he would terrify the People's Republic. He speaks of an India that does not feel the desire to visit America, because Americans will wish to come here. He sold these dreams, and they were bought. Not since Indira and garibi hatao has as much myth been manufactured in the Hindi heartland. Mr Modi has a majority, the most sweeping mandate he could desire. If he does not deliver in a few years, he will not just disappoint a few voters. He will enrage an already frustrated generation.

http://www.business-standard.com/article/opinion/mihir-s-sharma-the-modi-generation-114051601927_1.html


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