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Anyone who is mocking this image has no idea about what moves India and the imagery that has the power to stir India. The last person who understood this was Gandhi. Our entire political analysis is trapped in juvenile, pedestrian elitism. You mock this at your political peril. 
The most curious thing is how easy it is for the Indian prime minister to get his opponents to do exactly what he wants. The more they spread images of him in a Himalayan cave, meditating, with their disdain, the more these images are going viral. His opponents are so deracinated
that they cannot comprehend that he has already started a profound image makeover which might have deep resonances all the way through to his days beyond the narrow confines of a government designation. Caught in their current bitterness they cannot see his very long hand.
And just to add, perhaps it is not apparent to people who never go to temples, that is not a ‘red carpet’. Such floor sheets are there in many temples where people walk barefoot. It’s there in many RKM centres too. Such ignorance is rather telling in a debate fraught with class.
