Every day, Facebook reminds me of my posts on that day a year ago, 2 years ago, and so on, all the way till 2007, my joining year. It used to be irritating once, but now, I find it handy.
Why? Because I had written extensively about my fears of this man, Modi, and the damage he can cause, only to be mocked and abused by the bhakts on my timeline. Most of my posts have aged like fine wine, looking more and more prescient and magical, while the comments have aged like milk kept outside on a hot Indian summer’s day, so much so that if I were to take those comments (which were equal parts, ‘No, you don’t understand Modi; he works in mysterious ways, just wait for the results, there will be no appeasement now, watch the economy grow under a smart Gujarati’ and ‘MMS was silent, Indira was a dictator, Nehru purposely sidelined Patel, we would have had Aksai Chin and Kashmir if only, corruption was rampant, things are going to be different now’) and make cheese out of it, even that would turn out rotten.
I realised that I could literally keep sharing my posts from 6 and 7 years ago and not have to produce anything new, and still be considered a miraculous seer and soothsayer. Of course, I was no such thing. All I did was keep my eyes open and think beyond my nose, which is more than can be said for most others who mocked me for ‘not giving him a chance’.
Today, this man Modi has not just disgusted people like me who were never really convinced of his ability to govern (and thoroughly convinced of his malafide intentions), but also pissed off people who gave and kept giving him chances.
Modi has proven himself to be a disappointment even to the bhakts, bar the most hardcore of them. Even the Muslim-haters now have doubts whether this man in the PMO is good for their nation, whatever warped ideas of ‘nation’ they may have.
He has made a hash of diplomacy, governance, the economy, health, education, defence, justice, policing, democratic institutions, and everything we built (yes, us and our ancestors built) and cared for, all in a span of just 7 years.
Modi has proven himself to be a disappointment even to the bhakts, bar the most hardcore of them. Even the Muslim-haters now have doubts whether this man in the PMO is good for their nation, whatever warped ideas of ‘nation’ they may have.
He has made a hash of diplomacy, governance, the economy, health, education, defence, justice, policing, democratic institutions, and everything we built (yes, us and our ancestors built) and cared for, all in a span of just 7 years.
Truly, he has done what couldn’t be done over the past 70 years.
It will take another 70 years, if we are lucky, to earn back all that we have lost.
