Holi idhar hai, par Modi-ji kidhar hai? !

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 What they all collectively fail to comprehend is that, their scale for measurement of the Moditva doctrine are outdated and their methods are long due for recalibration.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.