Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s chief talent is self-aggrandizement.
Visiting leaders don’t hold victory rallies in a foreign
country—but that’s exactly what he did in New York’s Madison Square
Garden on Sunday. He appeared in a tasteless Bollywood-style
extravaganza before an adoring Indian American crowd and
speechified for an hour as an artist drew a portrait of him live on
stage.
All of this was meant to thumb his nose at the American
establishment that barred him from entering the country after his
role in the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, his home state,
notes Shikha Damlia.
Modi seems to have the autocrat’s instinct to be the star
attraction. That does not bode well for the massive economic
decentralization—the hands-off approach—that he himself touted as
essential for offering a decent standard of living to Indians.
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