Who’s Modi scared of?

 

Modi admiring himself at Madame Tussauds

Narendra Modi is a coward and a weakling. Otherwise he would not get people arrested for as flimsy reasons as putting up posters that read: “Modi ji hamare bachon ki vaccine videsh kyon bhej diya (Why did you send our children’s vaccines abroad?)” A lot of people have been arrested in India from 2014 for criticising Modi. Many have had their offices raided by various central government agencies or harassed in surreptitious ways. A few have even disappeared. Who is Mr Modi scared of?

India’s first Prime Minister was a man who warned the nation against his own potential for dictatorship. In 1937, an article published in Modern Review described the then president of the Congress (Jawaharlal Nehru) as having “all the makings of a dictator in him – vast organisational capacity, ability, hardness, and, with all his love of the crowd, an intolerance of others and a certain contempt for the weak and the inefficient.” The article was written by Chanakya which turned out to be Nehru’s own pseudonym. Nehru was his own critic. He encouraged others to criticise him too so that he would have proper self-knowledge and not a bloated ego.

Bloated ego is Modi’s problem. And he cannot afford to deflate it. Only those who have some substance within can afford to lose their inflated image. When your heroic claims about your boyhood are false, when your academic degree is false, when your credentials are all fake, you can’t afford to live without a scintillating façade built with propaganda of all sorts. Anyone who questions any of that propaganda is a serious threat and will be eliminated one way or another.

Modi’s real enemies are not his critics but himself. The same is true of his sidekick, Amit Shah, another infinitely bloated ego who will use an excavator where a garden rake would do. Both Modi and Shah are counterfeit personalities that are scared of their own realities, their own inner demons. But they conceal their cowardice with 56-inch breastplates forged with exquisite propaganda.

Such people won’t learn from their mistakes. Why seven years, even seventy, won’t teach them any lesson. They are just incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding the reality around them, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. They have hypnotised themselves. No one can argue with them just because they regard themselves to be godly or greater. Their end will come just once, the last doom that spares none, and when it does come it will be catastrophic.

But why should a nation of 1.3 billion people endure all sorts of agonies because of the ego of one person and the ego of that one person’s sidekick? This is called destiny. You can call it your karma if you wish. After all you elected them, didn’t you?