{"id":7322,"date":"2014-10-04T15:44:22","date_gmt":"2014-10-04T20:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=7322"},"modified":"2014-10-04T15:44:22","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T20:44:22","slug":"why-narendra-modi-is-a-small-man-with-big-dangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2014\/10\/04\/why-narendra-modi-is-a-small-man-with-big-dangers\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Narendra Modi is a small man with big dangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pankaj Mishra: It is not too early to worry about the pernicious fall-out from the ambition to turn India into a golden bird in double-quick time. For Modi\u2019s plan to redeem India\u2019s thousand years of slavery through labour-intensive manufacturing may be about as realizable in these days of increasing automation as Mao Zedong\u2019s project of overtaking America\u2019s industrial production by making steel in backyard furnaces. Scapegoats are already being sought in India just three months after Modi\u2019s ascent. A member of Modi\u2019s own coalition protested last week that while \u201cdiscrimination and the distrust of the Muslim were covert\u201d in the past, \u201cnow the gloves are off and the hatred is in-your-face.\u201d More<a href=\"http:\/\/www.livemint.com\/Opinion\/HagYgmfKsotesXNpO4l6hP\/Why-Narendra-Modi-is-a-small-man-with-big-dangers.html?utm_source=copy\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pankaj Mishra: It is not too early to worry about the pernicious fall-out from the ambition to turn India into a golden bird in double-quick time. For Modi\u2019s plan to redeem India\u2019s thousand years of slavery through labour-intensive manufacturing may be about as realizable in these days of increasing automation as Mao Zedong\u2019s project of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2014\/10\/04\/why-narendra-modi-is-a-small-man-with-big-dangers\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Narendra Modi is a small man with big dangers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7323,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7322\/revisions\/7323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}