Don’t eat beef. Don’t shout slogans. If you’re a girl, dress ‘decently’. Learn Sanskrit. Sing the national anthem before movies. Do yoga. Snatch up a broom and sweep. And now go cashless, stand in long queues and prove you don’t have black money. The list of dos and don’ts emanating from government and law courts these days is seemingly endless. Is nation-building, NDA style pushing too hard at personal freedoms?
So far though citizens don’t seem to mind. It’s been a month since demonetisation and there’s no end to the cash crunch. Yet there’s no glimmer of the angry riots that even the Supreme Court had warned about. So has PM Modi achieved a historic mobilisation by converting every Indian into Read More
