In the run-up to February 14, Goa’s election day, It wouldn’t be unreal to believe you’re entering a spectral world of ghosts and the dead. Every leader is summoning someone who’s passed on.
There’s prime minister Narendra Modi’s perpetual invocation of the ghost of Nehru – two days ago, in the market town of Mapusa in north Goa, he reiterated yet again how India’s first prime minister had refused to send the army to liberate Goa at the time of independence because he wanted to keep his image as a leader of peace. Modi did not offer any historical data to back this idiotic insinuation.
