Modi's chauvinism problem

January 14, 2015 12:26

As the New Year dawns, it has become increasingly clear that India's new government faces a dilemma entirely of its own making '" one that its predecessor never had to confront.

Narendra Modi's election as Prime Minister in May 2014 was initially hailed worldwide as marking the advent of a more business-friendly government in the world's largest democracy.

Encouraged by Modi's pro-market sound bites -- he vowed to "replace red tape with a red carpet,' declared that the government has "no business" in business, and campaigned on the slogan 'Make in India' -- investors rushed to praise him as a new messiah of development.

Read Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's column here

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