Modi's lecture on international relations.

The Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, recently gave a lecture to the world on international relations. In fact, what sounded as a lecture on international relations was Prime Minister Modi's address to the inaugural session of The Economic Times Global Business Summit on March 6, 2020, in New Delhi. Considering that our relation, engagement and competition with India remains a very important foreign policy issue, nothing that PM Modi says on the subject should escape our attention.

Ridiculing his own opposition parties, PM Modi said, 'Such people feel that inaction is the most convenient action but for us nation building, country's development and governance is not an issue of inconvenience but conviction. Conviction to do the right thing, the conviction to break the status quo.' Crediting himself for breaking the status quo, which he has done through his ongoing political repression at home, Modi has harmed India more than he has benefitted it.

He and his team of BJP hardliners increasingly remind me of the rule of the Thirty Tyrants (404-403 BC) who led by Critias ruled Athens as thirty commissioners appointed to the oligarchy. These Thirty were the puppets of Sparta and were backed by the Spartan troops. Much like BJP, they had an extremist conservative core and formed an oppressive regime which fostered a bloody purge resulting in the confiscation of citizens' property and the killing of 5% of the Athenian population. Many Athenians who were opposed to this type of government were forced to leave Athens.

What happened in Athens (the birth place of democracy) almost 2,400 years ago is being repeated today in the largest and most populous democracy in the world, India. While Jesus needed the cross to fulfil his mission and Socrates needed the hemlock for his, the BJP is all set to utilise the division through saffron to accomplish its mission. The 'cold murderous saffron madness' in India is setting it ablaze. PM Modi is not prepared to understand and perceive this and while he boasts about his actions it is actually the inaction of his law enforcement agencies during the killing and murder of innocent Muslims in India that is raising the bar of India ever becoming a responsible democracy. Like Athens, India today is being ruled by the 'Thirty Tyrants'. To the great relief of the followers of history, these men even after 2,400 years are not remembered for their foul democratic actions but their brutality and tyranny.

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