Breaking News: Should Modi Be Evaluated for His Mental Health?

 

Breaking News: Should Modi Be Evaluated for His Mental Health?

If you knew someone who spun outlandish tales with the ease of breathing, say, a colleague who swears he commanded troops in a war that never happened, or an aunt convinced the moon personally tracks her car’s every turn, wouldn’t you question their grip on reality? What about the neighbor who claims he’s allergic to water yet insists he swims daily, or the friend who recounts unseen conversations with historical figures? These aren’t charming quirks; they’re classic hallmarks of a mind adrift in its fiction. In any other context, such habitual lying and self-mythologizing would prompt calls for a mental health evaluation.

Yet here in India, we’ve elevated that very talent fabricating history, erasing facts, and performing miracles that vanish under scrutiny to the highest office in the land. Eleven years in, Narendra Modi’s tenure reads like a compendium of fantasy: a leader who cloaks political ambition in the garb of divine providence, while leaving a trail of vanished records and unmet promises. Let’s unpack the mythology one “miracle” at a time.

1. The Missing Tea-Station Saga 
   Modi’s origin story begins on a railway platform, where he sold tea cups to weary travelers. Except no station on any map or in any railway roster confirms the tale. No station, no witnesses, just a conveniently embroidered legend.
2. The Unspoken Divorce
   Married in 1968, “left his wife” shortly thereafter, yet the public record is silent. No explanation, no statement, no accountability. Just a blank page where honesty should reside.
3. Forty Years as a “Sadhu” (But the Calendar Disagrees)
   He boasts of begging like a holy mendicant for four decades. Mathematically impossible when you tally his RSS work, Gujarat campaigns, and party offices. Yet this fable persists, unchallenged.
4. The Phantom U.S. Tour
   Twenty-nine states were visited long before 2001, he claims. No flight manifests, no press coverage, only a résumé bullet point that evaporates under the slightest fact-check.
5. The Vanished Master’s Degree
   Once proudly displayed on official platforms, the alleged postgraduate credential quietly disappeared after questions arose, poof, gone as if it were never there. A real degree survives scrutiny; a fake one dissolves.
6. The Gujarat Carnage Cover-Up
   In 2002, communal violence ravaged Gujarat under his watch. Hundreds of Muslims slaughtered, state authorities paralyzed. A leader’s first duty is to protect citizens he failed catastrophically.
7. Privatization for Cronies
   Gujarat’s public assets flowed into the hands of a select few industrialists. Today, those same cronies bankroll media outlets that trumpet Modi as a savior, creating a feedback loop of flattery and unchecked power.
8. The Sewage-Gas “Breakthrough”
   Proclaimed as an energy miracle, sewage transformed into fuel. The plants never materialized. The engines never ran. Yet another headline-grabbing claim that sputtered out under real-world conditions.

These aren’t your run-of-the-mill campaign fibs; they’re a decade-long carnival of self-aggrandizing myths so shamelessly recycled that only someone completely untethered from reality could repeat them without a blush.

Watch him peddle “Modi ka promise hai” like a sacred mantra during every election, promises that vanish faster than morning mist once the votes are counted. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me a dozen times, shame on me, and yet millions still line up to swallow the same hollow pledge.

Perhaps it makes sense in a culture where robed charlatans have been hawking salvation in exchange for alms for centuries and where a young Modi doubtless took notes while “begging like a sadhu.” However, in a modern democracy, perpetual deceit isn’t a political strategy; it’s a disqualifying pathology.

If any other leader displayed this parade of evaporating records, contradictory timelines, and miracle-of-the-month claims, we’d be demanding a full psychiatric evaluation. India’s future can’t afford a captain lost in his own fables. Isn’t it time we held him and his manufactured reality to the same standard as every other public servant?