Modiji, Can You Afford to Lose the Perception Battle with the World?

Yeh Jo India Hai Na… It is a messy democracy, but it is a democracy!

Some countries are still stuck with Kings & Sheikhs… some are sham democracies.. with a single leader for 25-30 years.. some are out and out military dictatorships.

But India is that jeeta-jaagta democratic miracle.. that decade upon decade… has stayed faithful to its core identity as a federal, secular, democracy.

Also… few would argue against Narendra Modi’s diplomatic successes… he has hugged his way into the good books of countries as opposed to each other as Israel, Saudi Arabia and Iran. He has entertained both Xi Jinping and Trump in Ahmedabad… looks like they sat at the exact same spot at Sabarmati Ashram.

So… why would the Modi government want to lose all this political capital, all this goodwill that it has built so painstakingly?!

And yet.. in recent months, unfortunately… that is what has been happening…

Yeh Jo India hai na… Duniya iss India se aajkal naaraz hai. And for the first time.. in a long time… India’s credibility as a secular democracy is being questioned…

For instance… the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, plans to appeal in India’s Supreme Court against the Citizenship Amendment Act.

She says the CAA is “fundamentally discriminatory” and breaks away from our “long tradition of secularism”.

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