Is Modi’s India Moving in the Right Direction?
They never tell you in college that political internships are 40% drafting representations, 30% printing malfunction management, and 30% pretending you understood what the PS just said about the Appropriation Bill. My desk is a strange universe; stacks of Lok Sabha starred questions, copies of The Hindu and Indian Express , a mousepad that squeaks like it disapproves of my browsing habits, and a thought that “ Is Modi’s India moving in the right direction? ” That’s not an intern-level question. That’s an “eminent panel on NDTV at 9 pm with Shekhar Gupta moderating” kind of question. But here I am, laptop glowing at midnight, sipping vending-machine coffee that tastes like caffeinated regret, trying to decide if India’s moving forward, sideways, or doing the bhangra in circles. The thing about Modi ’s India is that everyone already has an answer, often before the question is finished. To some, Modi is the Vikas Purush , the man who turned India into the world’s growth eng...