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Berke Negri posted:Is that TLDR your assessment of Modi or the article because the excerpts you posted basically painted him as "hindu nazi monster". If in the end that article came to the conclusion of your TLDR I would be shocked at the cynicism of the author. The article also paints Modi as legitimately trying to advance India as a Hindu world power and not some cynical rabble-rouser that is willing to intentionally sink India economically or irradiate India and Pakistanto pursue ethnic grudges. Even if Modi is a trainwreck, there are limits to the damage he can do: New Statesman posted:Others take comfort in the idea that India has many constraints that will slow down any attempt Modi may make to turn the prime minister’s office into some autocratic powerhouse. India has, after all, a pugnacious press and an active judiciary. It is a hugely diverse country and its history shows that, in the end, all its rulers need to embrace that diversity in order to govern effectively. “He wants to be in power for a long time,” the veteran editor Shekhar Gupta was recently quoted as saying. “[At 63] he is young by Indian standards, and that is not going to work with a purely polarising agenda. What works in Gujarat does not work in the rest of India.” quote:Here lies the one big surprise the election may yet hold. For the most important trend in Indian politics over the past 20 years has been the apparently irreversible rise of strong regional parties as both Congress and the BJP have lost a growing number of seats to strongmen ruling through an alphabet soup of local party acronyms: the TMC in West Bengal, the BJD in Orissa, the DMK and AIADMK in Tamil Nadu, and so on. If Israeli politics is increasingly about small religious parties gaining a disproportionate degree of influence by controlling small vote banks that can swing elections and decide the balance of power, the same is true of the regional parties in India. In the event, for all the media excitement about the rise of Modi and the fall of the Nehru-Gandhis, this election could be about the less glamorous and more complex story of an India where the regional tail is increasingly wagging the federal dog. America Inc. fucked around with this message at 04:22 on May 19, 2014 |
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