...Will someone please explain to me what it is about Modi that makes so many people believe that he could ‘wreck’ India? As someone who believes that democracy is India’s greatest achievement since it became an independent nation, I really am curious to know why there are so many people that Modi has the power to so damage the institutions of democracy. For myself I have to say that despite the distortions that have entered the polity, like dynastic succession and political parties being turned into family heirlooms, I have faith that the roots of democracy have grown so deep that anyone trying to tear them out will be felled in the process. It is ironic that the only people who appear not to have faith in Indian democracy are the English-speaking Indians foreign correspondents wine and dine in Delhi’s drawing rooms.
Tavleen Singh writing in her column "fifth Column” The Sunday Express, December 22, 2013