Just
after winning the historic mandate in 2014, Narendra Modi said "Mera samay
ka har kshan kshan, aur sharir ka har kan kan - is desh ko samarpit hai".
He became a "Pradhan Sevak".
India was at once divided into believers and the non-believers.
The words drew tears from the eyes of the former and jeers from the rest. That
gap has never been filled. We see the so called experts and opinion makers,
especially those who have a grip on the English media and representing the
latter, continue to question Modi's every word and move with utter contempt.
That, even when they're proved wrong again and again.
Be it their speculation on where will Modi's first foreign trip be just after
being sworn in or how much Obama is likely to ignore the once visa sanctioned
ex-CM or how much will RSS influenced PM be unleashing intolerance of the
dissenters, to what will be the impact of hiz supposed mega-blunders of not
renewing Raghuram Rajan's tenure and imposition of DeMo on the hapless poor.
These elite thinkers feed each other, reference one another and when that is
not enough, quote editorials from western liberal newspapers or criticism of
his governance by NRI's living in distant land, who unsurprisingly never miss
an opportunity to opine in their near retirement age. What they all
collectively fail to comprehend is that, their scale for measurement of the
Moditva doctrine are outdated and their methods are long due for recalibration.
They are always found several steps behind him.
They don't know if he can be labeled as a nationalist or an internationalist.
He confuses them as he oscillates among his peers by being an absolute
traditionalist to then easily transforming into a gen-next future ready
techno-geek. He advocates yoga and serenity by sitting still in meditation and
then demonstrates himself as the jet-set man on the go, crisscrossing across
the Indian sub-continent, the globe included. He can easily be classified as a
capitalist, a suit-boot sarkari-man and yet be a poor man's favorite, peddling socialism
& guardian of the jan-dhan. Is he a leader of the party known to represent
the upper caste or a champion of those like him, who are born in backward
class? For a moment you can win a bet by proving that he's an indulgent
megalomaniac and the next moment lose the wager to one who says he's an avowed
simpleton. And is he that celebrity that basks in self adulation or one that
stays away from the daily riff raff of prime time T.V. and practices austerity,
"maun" and "upwas" !
A municipality school educated Modi is a thought leader and his vision so vast
and deep, that they fail to grasp it, even when it's unfolding right before
their eyes. His razor sharp focus on both distinct entities i.e. India and
Bharat simultaneously, is simply not understood by the media fellows, all
who are too distracted and soaked by their own preconceived notions of what an
Indian PM must be focusing on. After all, only strength recognizes strength and
it's an uneven match between the giant and the myopic media.
As an example, for growth, the entire world is competing by printing money and
installing a disproportionately loose monetary policy, but the Modi-man on the
other hand, withdrew a chunk of it from circulation - 86% to be precise. To
usher in a digital economy, Modi did not remonetize it all back in the form of
hard cash.
So, what is the mental make up of the thiz Modi-man? It is said that you are -
what you were. And what was Modi-boy like? He was a child, born in poverty and
nurtured by nature. Before Modi rose up the political ladder through sheer
kinetic energy, he was marinated in unconventional childhood.
Let's look at what forces might have worked on him.
While helping his father to make ends meet, he sold tea to passengers from a
fragile shop at a railway station. In that, he once experienced serving tea to
the jawans heading to the border, some to maybe not return. Maybe, that
experience nurtured his love for India.
It is believed that one can defeat the nature's forces that constantly act on
you, by subduing and controlling your own personal nature. To do that, for
centuries ascetics of the eastern faith often indulge in penance or self pain,
by denying themselves even the basic needs. A teenaged NaMo had for months
given up salt - the basic ingredient of food. Maybe, this taught him will power
i.e. to act against instinct, an endowment available only to the highest order
of life.
In his quest to learn the 'truth', hardly an adolescent, he left home in
pursuit of a guru who can show him the way. He adapted the monks life for a
while. Maybe, that taught him to connect with his soul and understand that it's
all just a "moh-maya", making him a super optimist even in the face
of biggest disappointments.
Then as a young man, he traveled the length and breadth of India, meeting
different people for very long months. At the time, he never once did sleep
under the same roof and ate whatever waz handed to him. Maybe, that gave him
the cutting edge insights into the human thinking & behavior.
As a young RSS recruit, he was handed the first task of cleaning the place,
every room, serving food and making arrangements for visitors. He used to wake
up early and the drill of simple daily chores went on till the end of the day.
He was well appreciated. Maybe, that taught him that to rule the world, one
must serve it.
Notwithstanding the fact that there is no requirement of nationality in the
Indian constitution, there was great hue and cry when Sonia Gandhi was likely
to make a claim to be India's prime minister. People could not accept her as
she was not born in India & that could be measurable viz evidence of her
childhood passport.
What makes Narendra Damodardas Modi so unique, is that though he is acceptable
for being born on this soil - this Indian prime minister, the first one to be
born in independent India, is not the typical Indian that any Indian has ever
met before.
Those who attempt to bracket him into one or other entity or refer to him as
just another Indian - are wrong even before they start.
NaMo may have been fated to be born in India but he is destined to be a global
player. He is as much his mother's boy, as he is a nature's child.
He was omnipresent & sprinkling his star dust till the day of the UP
election. Ever since the astoundingly favorable results have come in, he is
absent from the scene.
So as the media goes about creating employment for itself through election
result analysis and the jubilant crowds go around beating the victory drum,
eating saffron colored "laddus" and throw color on each other in Holi
celebration; we can be sure that even before that dust settles down, Modi, not
the one to spend time in merriment - may already be investing his time
on planning his next grand move in solitude.
Most of us simply go about leading a purpose-less life. At least we can take
heart in the fact that we're led by a man, who has truly found his.
