Modi is the message: Decoding the man after his Bhuj I-Day speech

Traditionalists may be aghast that Narendra Modi would want to make a patently political attack on the Prime Minister over his Independence Day speech, when the norm is to give the appearance of national unity. However, both his challenge to the PM yesterday, and his aggressive speech to attack Manmohan Singh and the central government today, follow a simple logic: arguments in India are not won with just the power of reason, however much Amartya Sen may extol the virtues of argumentation; arguments are won through the demonstration of power and exercise of political will. This is exactly what Modi has been doing for the last few months, and this is what he did yesterday and today.

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