1/ Listening to Modi's independence day speech. Holy crap, the guy is good. Most powerful speech I've ever heard an Indian politician make.
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2/ The mix of solid Hindi with peppering of high/low vocab and strategic English words throw in on occasion is genius rhetoric strategy
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3/ Powerful and personal emotional appeal with grand statesmanlike refs to opposition, seeking consensus despite majority, no blame game...
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4/ Very punchy and powerful statement on the rape epidemic: roughly trans to "you police your daughters, do you police your sons?"
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5/ I'm recalling sleep-inducing "humme dekhna hai" Rajiv Gandhi era speeches. Night and day diff.
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6/ Foreign policy noises, A+, holds up Nepal as a positive model for turning violent polity into peaceful one...
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