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Hi. I'm of and the get your goody.

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A foreign correspondent at The Economist.

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I started out in journalism just

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over a decade ago in Mumbai.

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There was one big story in

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India back then. The

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landslide. Election of a new kind of

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leader. Narendra Modi.

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Ten. Years on? The big question

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in my mind and in the

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minds of anyone interested in India

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is still the same. Who Is

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Noreen Romo? The really? Travel

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around in there and movies everywhere

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on billboards on T V at

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the Cricket, but he's also elusive.

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The. Prime minister doesn't do press

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conferences. As the leader

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of the world's biggest democracy, Movie

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has proven to be a strong

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man with a dangerous streak of

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authoritarianism. He rarely

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gives unscripted interviews, so to tell

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his story, I've tried to find

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those closest to him. Money

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catch. Show read: A

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who hosted Mode The on one of

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his first visit to America. He

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movie! Was elected Prime Minister birth

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or I helped organize a rally in

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America. Eighteen

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thousand movie supporters filled Madison

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Square Garden in New York.

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data. This time he said he. And

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as usual. It.

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Was clear from the start that movie was

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on a mission to change India. And

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Mit. The economy has doubled in

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size. it's arise reminiscent of

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the ethics and summation the

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nineteenth century America and India's

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positioning itself as a powerful,

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independent player in the New

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world order. That

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there's a second part. Modi decisions. And this.

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He's. The front man for a

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so the mistake Hindu nationalists, dogma.

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Many. Indians, especially muslims and

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other minorities are terrorists. This

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year, threads where I was at another

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big event centered around Modi. The

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opening of a Hindu temple in

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Ayodhya, a site in Northern India

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that Hindus and Muslims embattled over

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the centuries. It's made of white. And

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it was decorated so beautifully we

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felt so do I see our.

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Movie led the consecration ceremony.

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It was a blatant blurring of

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religion and politics. And

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attack on India's secular democracy.

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Is the first citizen offered? You know, why

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should you not? Rather. Now.

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Narendra Modi is eyeing another five years

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in power. I

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want to find out how he got the saw. And

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whether he can continue to balance those thoughts

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as his agenda. The Hindu

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Nationalists ideology and that progress

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has to finish the job

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assigning India into the Superpower.

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You can have a computer and you can have

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bug with you your hand. This

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is the story of the

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enigmatic outsider who rose up

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to dominate India and safe

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it's destiny. Is

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