In the procession of VIPs who visited the home of recently deceased former Delhi chief minister Sheila Dikshit, one image was particularly striking. PM Narendra Modi was seen bowing with folded hands before the casket in which Dikshit’s body lay. Modi’s personal visit to the home of a staunch Gandhi family loyalist was an all-too-rare moment of warmth in the bitterly acrimonious political divide today. The PM’s fulsome tribute to Dikshit stood out too when he praised her “noteworthy” contribution to Delhi’s development.
Under Dikshit’s watch, Delhi rose from a sleepy bucolic backwater to spanking cosmopolitanism, its flyovers and cafes, metro and wide roads peopled by 21st-century citizens of talent, enterprise and surging activism. Before Dikshit, a lacklustre factionalised BJP had Read More
