The celebrations would have done a mega corporation proud. A day-long televised conference at a glass-fronted venue overlooking Delhi’s India Gate. A range of company directors making presentations on their respective departments. The grand finale: the CEO himself, addressing shareholders on the company’s determination to achieve greater profit and eliminate all rivals. Then, reality hit: of course this was not the two-year anniversary celebration of a business firm but a celebration of a government leading a democratic republic called India. The CEO was not the head of a company named BJP Pvt Ltd but the Prime Minister of all Indians, many of whom are crippled by severe drought.
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