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What do the last three years say about us?

Modi and Amit Shah have a kind of energy and courage that we have never seen before

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Debashis Basu
Contrary to what the headline suggests, this is not another column assessing the three years of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government. It is about us, our ability to judge a government that is obviously completely different from what we have seen or imagined so far. And that makes any three-year assessment perilous. We tend to forget our errors of judgement (the UP elections), mistakes in prediction (demonetisation), and our wide of-the-mark comments about the moves of a determined, secretive, and energetic government whose actions are hard to fathom from the outside. Our mind plays tricks. The flurry of assessments about
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