MODI CHANT

The profile of Modi, 66, in the magazine written by author Pankaj Mishra, said that in May 2014 - long before Trump seemed conceivable as a US president - Modi became the PM of the world’s largest democracy. “Once barred from the US for his suspected complicity in anti-Muslim violence, and politically ostracised at home as well, this Hindu nationalist used Twitter to bypass traditional media and speak directly to masses feeling left out by globalisation, and he promised to make India great again by rooting out self-serving elites,” it said.