MIHIR SHARMA: How Modi missed the moment
'India is perfectly placed to be the sort of leader that an authoritarian China can never be, that a fractured Europe is failing to be, and that an inward-focused U.S. is refusing to be'
24 January 2018 - 06:33
Whatever you might say about Prime Minister Narendra Modi -- and plenty of people have had a lot to say in the past -- not even his critics have called him an uninspiring speaker. He has held spectators at vast election rallies spellbound, even groups of overseas Indians in arenas like Wembley Stadium. He is a big room, big occasion speaker, always able to spark a response in his audience, to dazzle them with the audacity of his vision.
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