Showing posts with label anniversary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anniversary. Show all posts

Monday, May 18, 2015

No more a nice guy

by Harish Gupta, National Editor, Lokmat Group

With the anniversary of the Narendra Modi government just a week away, the "cultured" Indian — mostly English-educated secular liberal — discreetly looks the other way when conversation moves towards the obvious — how should one rate the Prime Minister's performance. He used to be a lot more candid, and voluble, in his criticism of the Modi dispensation till a few months back, the decibels going up with the RSS types both within and outside the BJP, and also in the Cabinet, passing crumby remarks on life in general, and the "sinister designs" of the minorities in particular. The western educated Indian thought it was a culture shock of sorts.