The road to his office in Gandhinagar, a smooth, featureless four-lane highway, held the first one: Modi ordered the demolition of about 120 small Hindu shrines to make room for it, despite vehement objections from his Hindu nationalist allies. Modi may be portrayed as an ideologue, but he is more complicated than that. "He's the only leader in the country who would be able to destroy a temple and get away with it, and still be called acceptable in Hindu politics," says Tridip Suhrud, a social scientist based in Ahmedabad.
Sunday, March 18, 2012
Narendra Modi and Demolishing Temples
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Sunday, March 04, 2012
Found @ Rang Shankara
Q. Where is the capital of India?
A. Switzerland.
We ought to stop printing Gandhi's face on our currency notes.
He is tired of constantly travelling to Switzerland.
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