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PM Modi’s Interview With Akshay Kumar - Clever or Desperate Ploy?

PM Modi’s interview with Akshay Kumar was a clever (and desperate) ploy to wrest initiative back from BJP’s hotheads

Raghav Bahl
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Modi’s interview with Akshay Kumar was a clever ploy to wrest initiative back from BJP’s hotheads.
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Modi’s interview with Akshay Kumar was a clever ploy to wrest initiative back from BJP’s hotheads.
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I am still reeling from Prime Minister Modi’s iconic, monumental (no, HE is not going to be happy with only two bombastic adjectives, so here goes a third), and “path-breaking” interview to Twinkle’s hubby. While everybody is scratching their heads over the “big why”, I think I’ve got it figured out.

It was a clever (synonymously, also desperate) ploy to wrest the initiative back from the hotheads in his party.

But if the prime minister had read Mary Shelley’s 18th century masterpiece, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (“I used to read so many books at the village library”, Modi told the star struck Twinkle-hubby), he need not have done this embarrassing cameo.

As per Wikipedia, it’s “the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a hideous, sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment”; but the monster murders Victor’s wife Elizabeth and brother William. Ever since then, “Frankenstein” has become a noun in English, describing a creature that turns violently upon its own creator.

Now to the billion-vote question: when and how did Modi lose the narrative to his political Frankenstein(s)? Let’s begin at the beginning…

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