The Modi Era: 2014-2025
Magnificent achievements indeed !
This past 11 year period will certainly have to be reckoned by historians of the future as India’s “finest hour” heralding a golden era in the life of the nation.
Anand Ranganathan’s one glaring omission of India’s achievements in the last 11 years is the great strides the country made in Space Exploration— who can forget the Vikram Lander successfully landing on the Moon on August 23, 2023, near the South Pole?
Of course there will nitpickers and naysayers who will start detracting from the big picture …
In addition to the 11 failures of Modi that Ranganathan lists, they’ll add their usual , stale griping about:
- rising mammoth unemployment,
- the tottering, floundering justice delivery system,
- the massive corrupting and uncheckedly growing influence of money power on the entire electoral system of the country
- the enormous continuing problem of child malnutrition,
- the pathetic state of primary education and health-care infrastructure,
- the burgeoning level of economic wealth and income inequality among society at large
- increasing centralisation of political and administrative power in the central government through the creeping but steady politicisation of key constitutional posts/ offices such as state governors, election commissioners , the bureaucracy and others
However, despite all the above negative markings , in my opinion, there can be no doubt that under PM Modi’s stewardship of the country in the last 11 years, India, more than ever it did in the previous 60-odd years , has certainly undergone a transformation that every Indian ought to be proud of.
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
Sudarshan Madabushi