'Modi wants to be Patel, but might end up as Indira'
August 14, 2014  16:50
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'It is obvious within these two months that in many ways Narendra Modi has a great degree of resemblance with Indira Gandhi.'

'The same style of management of power. The same kind of attempt to reduce a large section of the political leadership into, if not spectators, bureaucrats. His leaders are taking orders from him and executing those orders.'

'This is the model that has worked in Gujarat. And he is hoping that it will work in India.'

Ashis Nandy deciphers the Narendra Modi government, in an interview with Sheela Bhatt/Rediff.com, the second in a two-part series. Read

Read the first part of this two-part series: 10 things that the Modi government is doing right
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