Thread by @GorwayGlobal

Whatever the visiting #G20 dignitaries may say in public, the Prime Minister's Office, Ministers and others in the Indian Govt must be under no illusion, about what they must be thinking in private about the regime that makes so much about #G20Presidency

This was most aptly put by @AndrewMMacLeod when he spoke frankly in the famous @TimesNow panel dicussion. Every G20 embassy in Chankyapuri must have sent a diplomatic cable back to their capitals and Chancelleries detailing events of the recent days.

Under the heading, "India Govt acting irrationally" they would have chronicled
- the withdrawal of security barriers at UK embassy in Delhi
- the convenient court verdict on Rahul Gandhi
- the news blackout of the 18-party protest in Delhi
- the continued coverage ONLY of 1 man.

The dossier would have chronicled the hysterical, desperate, irrational, juvenile reaction to the charge that democracy is in decline in India - a reaction that far from countering that allegation, actually re-inforces it.

For all the lofty statements of #Vishwaguru being the mother of democracy, these cables would have pointed out the bleeding obvious, that India is now ruled by a petty cabal of insecure, regressive men who exercise power without responsibility.

This insecure and unsure regime has substituted image for reality, presentation for performance, assertion for evidence, petty strategems for grand strategy, and a controlled and orchestrated media for an independent and free press.