மோடியைப் போட்டுத் தள்ளுங்கள்

இந்த புத்தாண்டு "மோடி-இல்லாத" ஆண்டாக இருக்கட்டும்.

இவ்வாறு கூறியது வினோத் மெஹதா என்ற காங்கிரஸ் ஜால்ரா. அவுட்லுக் என்ற ஒரு டாப்ளாய்டை நடத்தும் ஆசிரியர்.

Pseudo-secularists (me included) are copiously mourning the victory of Narendra Modi. There is enormous reluctance to acknowledge the scale of the achievement. The Merchant of Death scored against huge odds. He did not win because he is a one-dimensional cut-out. His political enemies should analyse his craftily constructed persona instead of reducing him to a caricature. To vanquish Modi, we must dissect the Modi "package". It is one part development, one part Muslim-baiting, one part histrionics, one part demagoguery, one part messianism. This Modi myth needs to be demolished in the killing fields of Gujarat, not in TV studios.

Meanwhile, pundits and pollsters stubbornly insist they got it right. "If you read the third para below line 7, I had predicted a huge Modi victory." Outlook gave up election opinion polling in 2004. In 1981, at the Sunday Observer, I was a devotee of opinion polls and, at the risk of immodesty, I can claim to be one of the pioneers of using opinion surveys in the media.As an editor of some experience, if not wisdom, I can confidently assert that opinion polls do little for circulation or credibility. You bust huge sums—these damn things are horrendously expensive—and get the results horribly wrong.

I too am a victim of opinion polls. In 2002, Outlook predicted a Congress victory in Gujarat. Till today readers and friends remind me of the boo-boo. I am scarred for life.

May 2008 be a Modi-free year for you. Season’s greetings!

டெவில்'ஸ் அட்வகேட் புகழ் கரன் தாபர் 


மோடியை போட்டுத் தள்ளவே சொல்கிறார்.

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Where does this leave the regional parties and the Left? They may retain their identity, even their present base, but they will have to line-up behind Modi or Sonia, in the saffron camp or the liberal/secular one. They may even have to submerge themselves within the broad appeal of the camp they belong to.

Only the sudden removal of Narendra Modi can stop this. For he is the agent forcing this change. And whilst he’s with us, he will do just that. I have no doubt Indian politics after Sunday the 23rd is another country. We have to live with new challenges. Some of us have to accept new leaders.

இவை அனைத்தும் தாண்டி, நரேந்திர தாமோதர் மோடி என்ற முதலமைச்சர் வெற்றி வாகை சூடியது மிகவும் வியத்தகு விஷயம்.



இந்தியாவின் பத்திரிக்கை உலகு, இடது இம்சைகளின் கையில் இருக்கமாக உள்ளது தான் இப்படிப்பட்ட "ஓலங்கள்" காட்டுகின்றன.


இனிய புத்தாண்டு நல்வாழ்த்துக்கள்.


இந்த 2008 ஆம் ஆண்டு, தீவிரவாதம் அற்ற ஆண்டாக இருக்கவேண்டுகிறேன்.