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Wow! Thanks to The Print for searching the globe for India haters and giving them a platform– a few more eyeballs for our advertisers can’t hurt, can it?
For readers with a not very long memory this author had written a piece in the NYT about the Chittisinghpura massacre of Sikhs in Anantnag dist of Kashmir in year 2000 by Pak based militants — and blamed it on Indian army.
Pankaj Mishra sure knows who butters his toast. For his foreign handlers he can sell his friends and family — forget India.
People are talking about Modi mania or Modi magic through intricate reasoning which appears to be convincing, but I have a simple logic. Please consider this: India is a predominantly poor country, and Modi captured poor people’s imagination by making all sorts of promises, selling them big dreams, so he won in 2014. The same, VERY LARGE voter base is disillusioned with Modi today. Because of suffocating compulsions of basic living, across all caste and communal lines, ALL POOR PEOPLE THINK ALIKE. So I believe this: the BJP, despite all of Mr Modi’s shenanigans, will be ROUTED in these elections. By that I mean a sub-100 score.
Let’s assume that Modi will be routed and let’s also assume for a bit that you a well read sensible man. Who would you vote for? Rahul Gandhi, the comedian in chief of the congress party, who only got this job because he is a Gandhi! Or would you vote for Mayawati, who apart from building status of herself has done nothing for the Dalits she is supposed to espouse and her best friend in need, Shri Akhilesh Yadav, who took UP a further 20000 thousand leagues under the sea. Perhaps you are a Mamta fan, who runs the state like a Mafia don. Who Will You Vote For Sir??
Modi may not have achieved what he had promised, yes some decisions were perhaps wrong, but atkeast the intent was correct. Our Shastras say that Action is better than inaction and Modi did take action rightly or wrongly, that both the electorate and history will decide. I for one will give him atkeast 1 more term to complete his unfinished task. After all you and many others perhaps blindly voted for the congress for last many years.
I will vote for ANY of the names you mention, depending on where I am, and in my location who appears to be MOST LIKELY to defeat the BJP.
I never have, and never will, vote for the BJP. For two reasons: I do not subscribe to their BLIND & INTENSE hatred for the Muslims; I do not subscribe to their UNSCIENTIFIC claims of superiority of the ancient Hindu race. In fact as a proud and THINKING Hindu I feel quite embarrassed by such stories and the bad name they bring to the Hindus at large.
To understand this author, one has to see the coverage by Christian Amanpour in Pakistan in the aftermath of 9/11 and the attack on Indian Parliament. That was just one classic example of how journalists twist words to suit their agenda. The fact is that there are two categories of politicians: (1) overt – such as Trump, Modi and Nigel Fararge (UK) and (2) covert, but by no means less corrupt, incompetent and power-hungry – such as Sonia Gandhi, who is neither social media savvy nor a sincere public servant. The state of Rae Barriely and Amethi is enough proof that absolute power when unaccompanied with good intent is equally responsible for the current mess in India.
Oh Dear! You must be very uncomfortable! The indigestion, the acid reflux all must be causing a lot pain. You just can’t digest the fact that Modi has actually been a paradigm changer for the good of this country. I am not going to list out the good things he has done simply because you don’t have the eyes to see it, stomach to digest it and the heart to accept it.
You can get away with your a lot of your girbish in New York Times and other such like minded myopic papers and I am sure they give you a good pat on the back for being a good brown face who agrees with them, and maybe even buy you a drink or two from time to time, but here in Bharat you will always be akin to those “Indians” who actually helped the British to rule Bharat.
Difficult for an older person to judge the potency of social media platforms in creating an alternate reality. Not a soap or a reality show. This is a complex country to govern and lead to prosperity. No getting around that.
Incredible, This is as wonderful piece of fictional writing. Pankaj is using his formidable writing craft to paint Modi as a modern day methuselah.Pankaj, You give Modi too much credit and people too less. Modi is better politician than his rivals, more hardworking , focused and committed. That’s the simple truth. But that doesn’t come across as clever. Hence this option piece.
People like you raise questions over credibility of armed forces just to show journalism but in real people like you are not a journalist but a sick minded personality to get recognition. People like you ,have believed pak army over balakon but do not stand with indian air force. Shame on you and your journalism, and please if you do not know how to do this in better way the keep your mouth shut.
You guys write whatever you want to vent your frustration. But Congress is not getting my vote unless the Nehru family and its sycophants are eliminated from the party. I want to see Modi back for another 5 years with absolute majority. It is as simple as that.
मोदी ने हिंदुओं की शान बढाई । मुझे कोई मतलब नहीं विकास से । मतलब है सिर्फ कि मेरा धर्म सुरक्षित रहे । विस्तार करें । ओर मोदी कर रहा है । उमर अब्दुल्ला ने कहा था कि 2024 की तैयारी करो । पर मै कहता हूं कि जब तक मोदी हैं तो कोई तैयारी न करो । अगली बार बल्लुस्तान पर हमला होगा
Wow! Thanks to The Print for searching the globe for India haters and giving them a platform– a few more eyeballs for our advertisers can’t hurt, can it?
For readers with a not very long memory this author had written a piece in the NYT about the Chittisinghpura massacre of Sikhs in Anantnag dist of Kashmir in year 2000 by Pak based militants — and blamed it on Indian army.
Pankaj Mishra sure knows who butters his toast. For his foreign handlers he can sell his friends and family — forget India.
Mir Jafar and Jai Chand come to mind.
People are talking about Modi mania or Modi magic through intricate reasoning which appears to be convincing, but I have a simple logic. Please consider this: India is a predominantly poor country, and Modi captured poor people’s imagination by making all sorts of promises, selling them big dreams, so he won in 2014. The same, VERY LARGE voter base is disillusioned with Modi today. Because of suffocating compulsions of basic living, across all caste and communal lines, ALL POOR PEOPLE THINK ALIKE. So I believe this: the BJP, despite all of Mr Modi’s shenanigans, will be ROUTED in these elections. By that I mean a sub-100 score.
Let’s assume that Modi will be routed and let’s also assume for a bit that you a well read sensible man. Who would you vote for? Rahul Gandhi, the comedian in chief of the congress party, who only got this job because he is a Gandhi! Or would you vote for Mayawati, who apart from building status of herself has done nothing for the Dalits she is supposed to espouse and her best friend in need, Shri Akhilesh Yadav, who took UP a further 20000 thousand leagues under the sea. Perhaps you are a Mamta fan, who runs the state like a Mafia don. Who Will You Vote For Sir??
Modi may not have achieved what he had promised, yes some decisions were perhaps wrong, but atkeast the intent was correct. Our Shastras say that Action is better than inaction and Modi did take action rightly or wrongly, that both the electorate and history will decide. I for one will give him atkeast 1 more term to complete his unfinished task. After all you and many others perhaps blindly voted for the congress for last many years.
I will vote for ANY of the names you mention, depending on where I am, and in my location who appears to be MOST LIKELY to defeat the BJP.
I never have, and never will, vote for the BJP. For two reasons: I do not subscribe to their BLIND & INTENSE hatred for the Muslims; I do not subscribe to their UNSCIENTIFIC claims of superiority of the ancient Hindu race. In fact as a proud and THINKING Hindu I feel quite embarrassed by such stories and the bad name they bring to the Hindus at large.
To understand this author, one has to see the coverage by Christian Amanpour in Pakistan in the aftermath of 9/11 and the attack on Indian Parliament. That was just one classic example of how journalists twist words to suit their agenda. The fact is that there are two categories of politicians: (1) overt – such as Trump, Modi and Nigel Fararge (UK) and (2) covert, but by no means less corrupt, incompetent and power-hungry – such as Sonia Gandhi, who is neither social media savvy nor a sincere public servant. The state of Rae Barriely and Amethi is enough proof that absolute power when unaccompanied with good intent is equally responsible for the current mess in India.
Oh Dear! You must be very uncomfortable! The indigestion, the acid reflux all must be causing a lot pain. You just can’t digest the fact that Modi has actually been a paradigm changer for the good of this country. I am not going to list out the good things he has done simply because you don’t have the eyes to see it, stomach to digest it and the heart to accept it.
You can get away with your a lot of your girbish in New York Times and other such like minded myopic papers and I am sure they give you a good pat on the back for being a good brown face who agrees with them, and maybe even buy you a drink or two from time to time, but here in Bharat you will always be akin to those “Indians” who actually helped the British to rule Bharat.
Difficult for an older person to judge the potency of social media platforms in creating an alternate reality. Not a soap or a reality show. This is a complex country to govern and lead to prosperity. No getting around that.
Incredible, This is as wonderful piece of fictional writing. Pankaj is using his formidable writing craft to paint Modi as a modern day methuselah.Pankaj, You give Modi too much credit and people too less. Modi is better politician than his rivals, more hardworking , focused and committed. That’s the simple truth. But that doesn’t come across as clever. Hence this option piece.
People like you raise questions over credibility of armed forces just to show journalism but in real people like you are not a journalist but a sick minded personality to get recognition. People like you ,have believed pak army over balakon but do not stand with indian air force. Shame on you and your journalism, and please if you do not know how to do this in better way the keep your mouth shut.
You guys write whatever you want to vent your frustration. But Congress is not getting my vote unless the Nehru family and its sycophants are eliminated from the party. I want to see Modi back for another 5 years with absolute majority. It is as simple as that.
Wow thanks for this classic modi hating piece.
मोदी ने हिंदुओं की शान बढाई । मुझे कोई मतलब नहीं विकास से । मतलब है सिर्फ कि मेरा धर्म सुरक्षित रहे । विस्तार करें । ओर मोदी कर रहा है । उमर अब्दुल्ला ने कहा था कि 2024 की तैयारी करो । पर मै कहता हूं कि जब तक मोदी हैं तो कोई तैयारी न करो । अगली बार बल्लुस्तान पर हमला होगा