The Shah of BJPs game plan who wants to alter Indias political culture

July 17, 2016 12:05

It is not often you get to spend a Saturday evening with Amit Shah. Although he lives in an imposing Lutyens bungalow at the heart of the national capital, the BJP president has no affection for the networks of political, bureaucratic and cultural power that thread their way through the city.

Does he feel like an outsider in New Delhi? "Why would I? It's in India.' His residence is functional and lightly decorated: statues of Ganesha, a metal figurine of a cow suckling a calf.

Shah sits cross-legged on an orthotic armchair, its arms draped with navy blue towels, matching portraits of Vinayak Damodar Savarkar and Chanakya hanging behind him. Are they his heroes?

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