Narendra Modi

The Permanent Campaigner

Kumar Anshuman and Haima Deshpande

Modi on the stump Part Two makes the elections in Maharashtra and Haryana a referendum on the Prime Minister

A Matter Out of Place

Shiv Visvanathan

Why dirt and waste are two parallel realms which need to be linked up in Modi’s project on cleaning up India

MAKE IT IN AMERICA

Tunku Varadarajan

Narendra Modi’s American whirlwind was a 100- hour-long non-stop performance starring Asia’s most popular politician selling his idea of India and his own legend to an enchanted audience...

The Making of an Oriental Cult

S Prasannarajan

Modi’s ongoing conversation with the world provides the first draft of an Indian leader’s vision for himself as the new wise man of the Orient

Modi makes a salesman’s Pitch: Make in India

Kumar Anshuman

The strength of Modi is his dexterity in connecting personally with both his customers and his people

Our Man goes to America

Suhel Seth

Americans love the language of the visual and the Prime Minister has a chance to mount another charm offensive

Make a Joke, and don’t forget to Chuckle

Bennett Voyles

A strange aspect of the Obama case is that unlike most pop stars who have fallen off the charts, he doesn’t seem to be anxiously plotting a comeback

Prime Minister Narendra Modi reaches America at a time when the relationship between Washington and Delhi is at a low ebb. Beyond the spectacle starring a man who loves performance lies a harder challenge: Can the enchanter redeem an alliance gone astray?

The Pathology of Anti-Americanism

S Prasannarajan

Narendra Modi’s American journey should be the beginning of a historical correction. The one who could be India’s Reagan should remain untouched by an ism abandoned by history

ROMANCING THE DRAGON

Ullekh NP

Modi played the indulgent host to perfection as he tried to bond with the visiting Chinese president Xi Jinping. Can the mutually suspicious Asian powers overcome the trust deficit?