“O(ne) B(ig) C(hange): Why the BJP goes into 2024 with a wider support base than ever”, Swarajyamag, December 12, 2023:
“Nineteen eighty-seven was a tempestuous, course-altering year for India in more ways than one.
The spring snowmelt saw Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his Congress party become fatally embroiled in the Bofors scam. Three months later, the monsoon failed and weathermen were resigned to writing long tomes on whether this was the drought of the century.
That same July, India became fatally embroiled yet again, in Sri Lanka’s ethnic conflict between Sinhalas and Tamils. The Indian Army was sent in to keep the peace but inexplicably ended up fighting the very Tamils they were dispatched to protect…..”
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