Many in the internet age called him Feku, the man who
promised a lot but delivered none. I realized myself that there has to be some
smoke for a fire to start up. (Narendrabhai Damodar) Modi is a man, who is
arranging that smoke from multiple places so that India gets back the lost fame
from World map. It has been proved by many that if you instill confidence in a
person, the person will grow just by the gesture of people’s goodwill. Modi seems
to inherit them by virtue of his selfless good work.
He never bunks office, sleeps or drowses in meeting, remains
passive during debates draws the wrong string, while meeting the technocrats
and bureaucrats. In short, he always has something to discusss with anyone and
everyone he meets and he is India in mind, whenever he talks business! My god,
he meets five hundred to thousand people a day on a one-on-one basis,
especially when he is on travel to a country like USA! I wonder how he manages
to keep everything balanced along with his body. Mere Yoga and some hot tea, that’s
all he offers as his secret to the journalists those interview him!
Of course, his speeches are written by his speech writers,
he is well versed with a series of officers, who make life rather easy for him,
but mind you, he is an impromptu speaker, when it comes to address public. He connects
up with audience and also rejuvenates enthusiasm amongst the people. His Madison
square speech was without notes, same is going to happen in bay area. That makes
him special, there was hardly any man in the short history (68 years) of India,
who had or bothered to have this much charisma. You might blame technology,
coming to his advantage but that’s just an excuse, he is gliding with his own
talent and will power. And we wish, he will bring a better out of India, at
least much better than what Congress managed to offer, primarily because they
wanted to rule the country, they never had an agenda than improving their own
funds. They didn’t improve India’s stature in world map as a respectable
country, a country to do business, a country that can compete with China for
affordable labor costs.
I admit we have problems of poor land acquisitions, worst
pollution in the capital of the country, polluted ground water and river water,
corruption issues, hunger, poverty and the list is endless. All this need
systematic cleansing, like how NItish kumar started in Bihar after Lalu raj,
till he joined back with Lalu again. But, we also need to understand that we
have a huge demographic dividend, a huge self-determined middle class who do not
subscribe the idea of corruption, who are willing to thrive a better india and
are willing to lock horns with Amazon by creating Ola, snapdeal, flipkart. We have
Ratan Tata, Narayana Murty, who believe that things can improve, if we give
ourselves a chance.
There is always a sunrise after a sunset, we just have to
keep our “Umeed” alive, options open and heart warm to embrace. Simultaneously,
we have to eradicate all those who come (hindering) in the process of progress,
may be it Mullayam, Lalu or few more names who have or soon going to be
history. On a lighter note, we have to force stop Robert Vadra to change guards
to Robert Gandhi to keep the dynasty alive. There will be several Modi of Namo
style, who promise to deliver and deliver the promise, there will be several Modi’s
(of Lalit Modi style) and Mallya’s and (Subrata) Roy’s, behind the bar for making
a mockery of the institutions. There will be a dawn that will begin with
sustainable, exporting, economic and strong world power: India
Ameen!!
© Subrat Sahoo
