Bhai, Where Do We Go From Here?
Dear Mr Narendra ‘Bhai’ Modi, Congratulations on managing a convincing win and here’s wishing you the best as you pack your bags to 7 Race Course Road. Kudos to the way you managed to spur a nation to dream of a stable government, sustainable development, eradication of inequality and what not. When you walk up to the highest office of my country, I can only congratulate you for the excellent public relations exercise you had triggered over a year ago. The strategy has paid off, and enticingly well, indeed. But then, Mr Modi, though I congratulate you, I do it not from the bottom of my heart. For, whenever, I see you smile, the weeping souls of 2002 appear, soaked in blood and tears, in my conscience. Whenever you address my Muslim friends out there as bhais, I know you don’t mean that at all. The whole of India is now reverberating in joy on your election and what a massive one it has turned out to be. But then, does that mean the whole of India is celebrating? When