The Grand Theater of Global Politics Featuring Arnab, Modi, and the Usual Suspects

 

The Grand Theater of Global Politics Featuring Arnab, Modi, and the Usual Suspects

It’s the oldest trick in the book: powerful nations poking their noses into other people’s business. America and Europe have been at it for decades, South Asia being one of their favorite playgrounds. The creation of Pakistan? Let’s just say it didn’t exactly happen without the enthusiastic applause of Britain and America.

Fast forward to today, and we have Arnab Goswami trying to defend Narendra Modi arguably the least qualified leader India has ever produced with the kind of logic that makes you wonder if the national supply of facts has been permanently discontinued. Modi, for all his chest-thumping, never quite grasped the nuances of global politics. Instead, he eagerly bent over backwards to please Washington, sacrificing India’s long-term interests in favor of protecting a few well-placed friends.

The so-called “deep state”? Please. It’s practically an ancient Indian tradition. Just ask Vibhishan from the Ramayana Ravan’s own brother who defected to Ram’s camp. Jawaharlal Nehru, at least, understood the game early on, refusing to be baited into Western power traps. He co-founded the Non-Aligned Movement, ensuring India wouldn’t be anyone’s lapdog in NATO or the Warsaw Pact. Nehru got a broken nation and he put that nation together. Modi, on the other hand, inherited an integrated, upward-trending economy, along with Pakistan already labeled a terrorist state and he still managed to wreck it. The “economic growth” he flaunts is built on the back of $2 trillion in borrowed money, much of which was funneled to his business cronies who, in turn, keep him in power with the help of his Godi media. Who knew religion could be such a blinder? Even the educated seem incapable of seeing how Modi has squandered everything yet these same people still worship him as some divine savior of Hinduism.

Now Arnab, in his infinite wisdom, is “connecting the dots.” To those nodding along: a gentle reminder it’s worth asking a few inconvenient questions. If the 2024 election was perfectly legitimate, why has the Election Commission of India stonewalled requests for voter data? Why the deafening silence on EVM vulnerabilities, despite demonstrations showing they can be hacked? Why was the Chief Justice quietly removed from the selection committee? And why are opposition leaders being locked up on charges that courts are later tossing out as baseless?

Logically speaking, if Rahul Gandhi was really working with the “deep state,” he wouldn’t have needed six months to decode the paper data handed to him by the ECI to find voter fraud. The supposed all-powerful American technology could have solved that in a coffee break by simply hacking the system. For those eager to buy what Arnab is selling try engaging the brain before you swipe the credit card.

But of course, what Arnab is actually trying to do here is not hold the government accountable it’s to deflect the nation with a nonsense “deep state” theory. While the public is busy chasing imaginary conspiracies, the real questions the ones the government must answer get buried. And why has the government chosen to stay silent? Simple. Because these hatchet men with microphones and studio lighting are doing the dirty work for them. And guess what? There are always enough idiots ready to fall headfirst into the trap.

Listening to Arnab without applying your own logic is like drinking tap water in a flood zone you might regret it later. Yes, the U.S. has meddled abroad that’s not up for debate. But when Modi buys Russian oil at a 30% discount and still charges Indians more than the global price, who exactly is pocketing the difference? Hint: it’s not America. And while the U.S., China, and Russia all want to influence India’s economy, the job of an Indian leader is to negotiate in the citizens’ interest a skill Modi seems to have missed in his career toolkit.

Modi’s political compromises began long before his Prime Ministership his record during the Godhra riots should have been disqualifying, as Dr. Manmohan Singh warned. But India elected him anyway, much like America elected Donald Trump despite glaring conflicts with Russia.

As for Arnab’s pet theory linking Rahul Gandhi and Muhammad Yunus that’s a creative stretch. America doesn’t exactly play a multi-decade chess game over such matters. Meanwhile, Bangladesh’s Hasina, after stealing her election, ended up with angry citizens publicly humiliating election officials. In Pakistan, their Election Commission has openly admitted to voter fraud.

If you think voter fraud is “just part of democracy,” then by all means, keep throwing critics under the “deep state” bus. But in today’s globally entangled economy, leaders need to balance foreign interests without selling out their people. That’s called governance though judging by recent events, it might soon be classified as an endangered political species.

Arnab Goswami? Let’s be clear he’s not a journalist. He’s an opinion machine with a single agenda. Opinion journalism isn’t inherently bad as long as it’s anchored in logic rather than blind loyalty to one side. Sadly, that’s not what we’re getting. And the government? They’re loving every minute of this circus. Why bother answering tough questions when your loyal ringmaster can keep the crowd entertained with tales of shadowy plots and invisible villains?

The tragedy isn’t just that Arnab is playing this game it’s that enough people are still willing to clap for the performance.