At school in India, we learnt to honour 'Netaji' Bose, not to imitate him
With respect to the sort of responses drawn by any commentary (questioning, even if not exactly critical) on the pronouncements and politics of India’s present-day rulers, I refer you to Ed Luce. Mr Luce is currently US National Editor of the Financial Times. In a previous avatar, he was the paper’s Delhi correspondent.
As a fine writer and man of discernment — with a low tolerance of humbug and BS — Mr Luce is well placed to analyse, from afar, the continuing change of India’s national propensities. (What’s more, as he was posted in both New Delhi and Washington, Mr Luce is ideally situated to draw dispiriting if very real parallels on why and how countries change: Slowly…and then all at once!)
Anyway, Mr Luce recently recounted the result of his response to a tweet by India’s prime minister Narendra…
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