Up close with Modi

It's 11 in the morning and I'm waiting. The heat is still bearable in Balasinor, central Gujarat, but the anticipation is overwhelming. I'm here to listen to one of Indian politics' most effective communicators. The one who plays with the mass mind with the unmatched panache of a verbal sorcerer. The one whose acidic semantics can scald the objects of his lampoonery. The one who can transport his rural audience to a rhetorical Ruritania of permanent bliss.

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