म द क जन द श

Modi s Hypocrisy

Modi s Chauvinism Problem

Modi in China

Like Modi, Patel was from Gujarat, where Modi is now Chief Minister.

म द सरक र क एक स ल

इसक अल व , म द न ज प न क स थ व श ष स ब ध व कस त क ए ह और अब क स थ व यक त गत स ब ध बन ए ह जब अब न सत त म व पस क त , म द न ट ल फ न करक उन ह बध ई द

Patel would have been outraged not only by Modi s conduct in office, but by the kind of remarks that Modi has repeatedly made against minorities.

(Full disclosure the long time leader whom he eclipsed was me.)

Modi s identification with Patel is an effort at character building by association.

The implication is clear a vote for Modi is a vote for a latter day Patel.

Congress politicians have reacted with robust indignation to Modi s attempt to appropriate Patel s legacy.

Modi is of course well aware that the past retains a powerful hold over India s present.

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NEW DELHI According to Prime Minister Narendra Modi s supporters, his overwhelming victory in India s general elections was a sweeping repudiation of everything for which the previous United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government, led by the Indian National Congress, stood. Will Modi live up to voters expectations?

There are, of course, many obstacles in Modi s path. India s tax and regulatory regime is widely regarded as unfriendly to business but Modi s track record in government suggests that he is sensitive to this problem and will be able to make significant improvements.

Will we ever again be able to trust a triple A rating issued by, say, Moody s?

But Patel s conduct during the violence that accompanied Partition stands in stark contrast to Modi s behavior in office.

Modi has found himself in an unenviable position vis à vis his own supporters He cannot live with them, and he cannot live without them.

By contrast, the Modi government plans to pursue a pro growth agenda that includes reducing bureaucratic delays, increasing infrastructure investment, stimulating manufacturing activity, and shifting to a simpler unified tax system. Modi s agenda also evidently includes an active foreign policy as it should.

Modi would rather be perceived as embodying Patel s decisiveness than as the destructive bigot his enemies decry.

Whether or not Modi bears direct responsibility for the pogrom, he certainly cannot claim to have acted as Patel did.

The main opposition leader, Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), has moved aggressively to lay claim to the legacy of one of India s most respected founders, Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel.

च क म द अपन अत यध क व यस तत क क रण व सभ न र णय नह ल प रह ह ज व और क वल व ह ल सकत ह , इसल ए सरक र द श ह न ह क छ म मल म , यह न त त व र ध भ स र ख अपन रह ह

A view of the Niger river from the embankment of Sekoro, Mali A traditional Malian boat on the river Niger, en route to the market Ouro Mody, a village on the Niger bank traditional Fula architecture The mosque of Djafarabe, in Fula territory Women fetch water from the river to water rice paddies A fisherman's son tends to play with the tool of the trade Life aboard the UNESCO boat A crew member, in traditional head dress A Pirogue (dugout) sailing off as dusk descends on the Niger

Bond rating agencies have issued misleading ratings on companies in questionable health. Will we ever again be able to trust a triple A rating issued by, say, Moody s?

India must shine, but it must shine for all of its citizens. Unless Modi can deliver inclusive growth, his triumph will prove short lived and the Nehruvians will return.

In short, China used the Panchsheel Treaty to outwit and humiliate India. Yet, just this summer, Prime Minister Narendra Modi s new government sent Vice President Hamid Ansari to Beijing to participate in the treaty s 60th anniversary celebrations.

In India, Mahatma Gandhi rejuvenated the country s soul, which had been battered by colonialism, and Jawaharlal Nehru established its democratic political culture. Modi now must lay the foundations for India s emergence as a global economic power.

Subordination to China is certainly not Modi s goal. The question is whether he can work with China and other Asian actors to design an alternative framework for regional peace.

Despite all of the obstacles and risks, Modi has articulated an explicit economic vision for the first time since Nehru. Unlike the apologetic reforms of the past two decades, Indians have been promised a confident new beginning.

Aside from the BJP s wholesale adoption of Twitter Modi s allies on the network include the party s parliamentary leader, Sushma Swaraj, and a coterie of organized supporters prominent Indian politicians from all parties have leapt in.

Modi s triumph has not noticeably been marred by widespread accusations that the BJP is creating fake accounts to boost his number of followers (and, if true, it would be further proof that Twitter now matters in India).

NEW DELHI On July 4, Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat and putative prime ministerial candidate of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), became the most followed Indian politician on Twitter, with more than 1.8 million followers.

But Modi, seeking to wrap himself in a more distinguished lineage than the BJP can claim, has called on farmers across India to donate iron from their plows to construct a giant 550 foot statue of the Iron Man in Gujarat.

There is a particular irony to a self proclaimed Hindu nationalist like Modi, whose speeches reveal a thinly veiled contempt for Muslims, laying claim to the legacy of a Gandhian leader who would never have qualified his Indian nationalism with a religious label.

The galloping chauvinism has known no bounds. Modi himself made the embarrassing declaration in a speech at a new hospital, no less that the figure of the Hindu god Ganesh, with its elephant s head on a human body, attested to the ancient Hindus knowledge of plastic surgery.

Xi is confident that China can understand and satisfy many of Modi s needs better than regional rivals like Japan. But China should not underestimate India s determination to uphold its strategic autonomy in Asia s shifting geopolitical landscape.

In politics, as the country prepares for next year s general election, the leading contenders to replace 81 year old Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are the Bharatiya Janata Party s Narendra Modi, 62, and Rahul Gandhi, who is just 43.

Market oriented reforms in the early 1990s changed that pattern, and annual growth accelerated to 7 under the Congress party, before slumping to 5 . Since the 2014 general election brought Modi s Bharatiya Janata Party to power, the government has reversed the slowdown.

Meanwhile, positive role models like Nitish Kumar of Bihar, Narendra Modi of Gujarat, and Navin Patnaik of Orissa have all been returned to power as Chief Ministers at least once all have delivered remarkable results while maintaining an unblemished record of personal integrity.

In India, the question is whether newly elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi will move decisively to fulfill voters high expectations for economic reform before his post victory honeymoon is over. And China will have to mitigate financial risks if it hopes to avoid a hard landing.