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Of political cycles and four-wheel drive

'Cyclists are especially insulting to the "Billionaire Raj" (citing The Economist) over which Mr Modi presides', says the author

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Sunanda K Datta-Ray
Some may have suspected Rahul Gandhi of trying to bulldoze Parliament House with a tractor. Then a mob of cyclists recalled a British journalist’s crack in 1971, that instead of sending its army into East Pakistan, India should have dispatched a fleet of Calcutta mini-buses to mow down everything and everybody. Narendra Modi must have chuckled at the antics of an Opposition that doesn’t know that Parliament is to be ignored, not stormed.

Cyclists are especially insulting to the “Billionaire Raj” (citing The Economist) over which Mr Modi presides. Not to be outdone by the 40 new billionaires who emerged during
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