When I view our beloved Bharat Mata from the remoteness of a faraway land, a comical absurdity about our politics becomes painfully obvious. I am still in that Swiss village of peridot meadows and autumn mists from where I sent you last week’s column and because I have been here for a while, I missed the celebrations of the Prime Minister’s 75th birthday. So, it was only last week that I caught the many interviews our Home Minister gave to our ‘independent’ private TV channels in which he sang paeans of praise to his old friend and political comrade, Narendra Modi.

In one of these interviews the Home Minister was asked to name the one quality about Modi that distinguishes him from prime ministers of yore and his reply both astonished and embarrassed me. He said, “You have probably never s

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