Modis speech: Vanilla sold as red hot chilli peppers

September 16, 2013 15:18

This Sunday gone by, Gujarat chief minister and aspiring prime minister Narendra Modi rightly saluted the sacrifices of India's soldiers.

He lavished praise on Haryana for giving a hundred martyrs, and more, in at least three of India's major wars.

The thing is, Modi had very little to say on precisely how he intends to make India's adversaries die for their country.

For the most part, the speech was boring old vanilla, sexed up with red-hot-chilli-pepper words. Read more.

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