Mr Narendra Modi has come a long way from the Gujarat of 2002. The real war is a psychological one, he has learnt. It is very easy to rouse up the rabble and set ablaze anything. Rousing up people’s imagination is the tough job. A real leader’s task is precisely that. And that’s what Mr Modi did in Kerala yesterday. Look at what he said in Kerala yesterday. India will not forget Uri. Mr Modi knows as well as Mark Antony that public memory is like the thistledown caught in the wind. And Mr Modi is as good an orator as Mark Antony. He knows how to win over hearts just like the Roman conqueror. “When we think of Kerala, we think of God’s Own Country, it has an impression of purity and holiness,” he said to the cheering crowd. “When I visited gulf countries recently, I wanted to meet my people from Kerala living there.” He knows that Kerala’s economy is sustained by the Malayalis working in those desert sands. ...
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