“ Satyameva jayate ” is India’s national motto. That may be one of the many ironies in a county steeped in corruption of all sorts. Truth and falsehood go hand in hand in India. That’s why we, Indians, never had the concept of the devil in our mythology. We never polarised the good and the evil into watertight compartments. Our gods were a queer mixture of both good and evil. That’s one of the best things about our civilisation. Neither truth nor falsehood is absolute except in the pure sciences. In actual life, they mingle obscenely. Narendra Modi’s admission that he has a wife is a recent glaring manifestation of that mingling. Why did he admit it now in the nomination papers submitted by him at Vadodara? Is it any indication that the truth is catching up with Modi? I don’t think so. Modi is more shrewd than Chanakya, Goebbels, or Machiavelli. Modi must be having some trick up his sleeve by disclosing his marital status at this point of time, the cynic in
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