Big money backs the wrong man in India

February 10, 2014 12:07

There is a great, virtual storm blowing through India today, and the most frantic people in the country seem to be those trimming their sails to it.

I refer to the shrewdly concerted campaign to make Narendra Modi seem like Indias natural and inevitable leader -- a veritable miracle worker who, emerging triumphant in elections due by May, will raise despondently low growth rates and restore the countrys pride and international reputation.

Read writer Pankaj Mishra's column for Bloomberg.

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