Guns, Germs, and Steel is a non fiction book published in 1997, way before the world knew anything about Modi as an Indian leader shaping a new India or even Gujarat knew who was Narendra Modi and what he stood for.
The 1997 book with many prizes awarded to it, explains that west conquered Asia, America and Africa because of three big factors : guns, germs and steel. Guns meant to be weaponry of modern warfare, germs stood for the diseases that destroyed much of Asia and Africa and new found land of Americas and a bit of eastern Europe but spared western Europe such as plague and tropical diseases and VD. Thirdly, steel meant to be modern industrial machinery that provided mass production and modern transport that created modern trade and commerce, enriching the west.
Diamond argued that West did not win due to its intellectual superiority over India, China or Africa but because of the three factors of guns, germs and steel.
The rise and stronger foothold of Narendra Modi in India since 2014 has not been liked by likes of western liberals such as Democrats in the United States, the likes of New York Times or Economist, Time Magazine or the neo liberal western trained academicians in India who returned their past awards for national services.
It is hard for Modi’s adversaries to understand that despite all bad things in modern India it is an oldest living civilization that has defied all western interpretations of how India can rise in its own comfort zone without measurements of western morals, and judgmental ethics of right or wrong.
West can not swallow the fact that a population of about four times the size of United States has elected a leader they see as their hero and a person who gives them a sense of dignity despite a thousand years of slavery since it was first invaded by Mohammad Gouri in 1179 AD and eventually turned over to British empire as the best jewel in its crown of colonies.
And Narendra Modi the Indian Prime Minister does not quite fit into the mold of a perfect leader that western world has created of leadership like Mohan Das Karam Chand Gandhi did fit about a hundred years ago.
And that is why he earns the hatred of western world neo liberals for defying them.
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