India’s Swadeshi Dilemma: Modi’s Call vs Economic Reality

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I am neither an enthusiastic supporter of Prime Minister Modi nor do I follow him blindly, but I keenly follow his politics since his days as the general secretary of the BJP. I know there is an army of admirers who think he is God’s gift to mankind and was born to make India great again; they vouch that he is the greatest orator India has ever seen. My opinion of him differs. I was never mesmerised by his speeches, finding them mediocre, lacking in substance, and full of rhetoric. Like everyone, I was also wondering what he was going...