Hunooz Dilli Dur Ast
(This essay has appeared in the July 2019 issue of the journal ‘Seminar‘ under the title ‘Modi was the message’.)
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Narendra Modi’s use of narrative as a political tool is akin to how a versatile batsman plays cricket. He can deal with any kind of ball thrown at him, exploiting opportunities to score sixes and warding off threats to remain on the pitch. Continue reading “How Narendra Modi uses narrative as a political tool to retain his voters and win over new ones”
First published in Scroll.in on 1 January 2015.
When he finished a month as India’s fifteenth prime minister, Narendra Modi said that he had been denied a “honeymoon period”. Truth is, Modi was given a very long honeymoon period of seven months. It was only in December that some of his own ardent supporters started asking tough questions of him.
2015 gives Narendra Modi a clean slate. Will he act decisively and deliver to India the good governance he had promised? Continue reading “The 2015 question: will Modi finally deliver the good times?”
Shivam Vij 