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Shri Modi Doesn't Approve of His Photos on Vax Certificates and Train Tickets. He Must Tell His Followers That

Menu हिंदी తెలుగు اردو Home Politics Economy World Security Law Science Society Culture Editor's Pick Opinion Support independent journalism. Donate Now Government Shri Modi Doesn't Approve of His Photos on Vax Certificates and Train Tickets. He Must Tell His Followers That Badri Raina 48 minutes ago The power of greatness is often caricatured by ill-educated well-wishers who take into their own bouncer hands the gumption to enlarge the colossus into a demi-god. An illustration showing a train reservation slip with Modi's face on it. Photo: X/@Kashish__singh_ Real journalism holds power accountable Since 2015, The Wire has done just that. But we can continue only with your support. Contribute now The following is satire. For a decade or so now, an in-house conspiracy to embarrass the prime minister has been afoot. Remember how they pasted his picture on COVID-19 vaccine certifications? And on school satchels? Not to speak of every page of every news outlet, although positioning his head just a millimetre above that of pretenders who draw breath from the slightest tilt of his eyebrow. And now time comes when these mischievous satraps have him gracing even such quotidian pieces of authorisation as railway booking tickets. This shameful project-sell stems of course from their notion that Shri Narendra Modi is a parvenu strongman who, like all upstart belligerents, likes to see the whole realm plastered in their insecure self-image. And there is the blunder. What these zealots do not know is that Shri Modi, adulation of the ancient, is no light-weight tin-horn in search of publicity, but an old aristocrat who traces his greatness back to even non-biological originations. Always an antagonist to new-fangled western ways, our numero uno remains deeply mortified by this exhibitionism thrust on him by his so-neophyte well-wishers. Which raises the question: Why does he not, with one syllable from his puissant oratory, put a stop to this upstartism which not only makes him deeply uncomfortable but also enables world-watchers to draw comparisons of him and his greatness with the likes of lowly punks such as Donald Trump – a comparison that causes such hurt to our sanatan loftiness. Ah, easier said than done. Excruciatingly discomforting as it must be for Shri Modi to see himself thus peddled on all sorts of commonplace corners, inevitably advertising his self-aggrandisement which he loathes secretly, great office puts such paradoxical fetters on the exercise of authoritative will. Were he to at one stroke lambast all those in-housers who do him such disfavour, imagine the way the boat of office may then be rocked, giving room for malicious tongues to say, aha he knew it all the time but did nothing. Imagine also how such retreat from a cruelly imposed dissemination might cause his party to go into a funk, not knowing how to justify the praxis of over a commercial decade. And, should he do nothing to stymie the enthusiasm of the mischief mongers who seek to undercut the scale of his classical statue by this profering his image to all and sundry everyday of every ordinary week, the dent to what history may make of these going on also troubles him no end methinks. Thus is the power of greatness so often caricatured by ill-educated well-wishers who take into their own bouncer hands the gumption to enlarge the colossus into a demi-god. Sadly, we sans-culottes may not know how best to admonish the great leader in this predicament, except to say we know how humble your heart is, how self-critical your mind and we know those that follow in devolution or self-interest can often be blind. Badri Raina taught at Delhi University. The Wire is now on WhatsApp. Follow our channel for sharp analysis and opinions on the latest developments. Make a contribution to Independent Journalism Related News A PM Dependent on the Opposition Doesn't Bode Well for BJP Modi's Cult-Driven Foreign Outreach Efforts Have Left India Friendless One Year, Five U-Turns: How Modi 3.0 Was Forced to Bend to Coalition Pulls & Opposition Pressures Four Times Narendra Modi Showed That Criticising the Union Government on National Security is Okay Modi is Maun: How the Sudden Ceasefire Marred the Prime Minister's PR Script 16 Opposition Parties Demand Special Parliament Session in Joint Letter to Prime Minister Rural Development Ministry Seeks 12% Hike in MGNREGS Outlay: Report By Calling For the Boycott of Foreign Goods, Modi Contradicts Himself Eight Times Trump Made Claims that Undermined India But Wasn't Really Rebutted by New Delhi View in Desktop Mode About Us Contact Us Support Us © Copyright. All Rights Reserved.