Modi’s model is at last revealed for what it is: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by big business Arundhati Roy https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/18/narendra-modi-hindu-nationalism-india-gautam-adani The BBC-Hindenburg moment has been portrayed by the Indian media as nothing short of an attack on India’s twin towers – Narendra Modi, the prime minister, and India’s biggest industrialist, Gautam Adani, who was, until recently, the world’s third richest man. The charges laid against them aren’t subtle. The BBC film implicates Modi in the abetment of mass murder. The Hindenburg report, published on 24 January, accuses Adani of pulling “the largest con in corporate history” (an allegation that the Adani Group strongly denies).
Gautam Adani. With a small group of Gujarati industrialists he set up a new platform of businessmen known as the Resurgent Group of Gujarat. They denounced Modi’s critics and supported him as he launched a new political career as Hindu Hriday Samrat, the Emperor of Hindu Hearts, or, more accurately, the consolidator of the Hindu vote-bank.
In 2003, they held an investors’ summit called Vibrant Gujarat. So was born what is known as the Gujarat model of “development”: violent Hindu nationalism underwritten by serious corporate money.
‘This is the biggest attack on Modi-Adani’ । HINDENBURG REPORT । BBC SURVEY । ARUNDHATI ROY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUIfC-SVCgc 23.2.23 The Hindenburg report and the BBC documentary were like an attack on the Twin Towers. It has caused tremendous damage to Modi-Adani. That's why Modi is nervous as well as furious. This is a big opportunity for the opposition parties, but they have to be united and work day and night. In conversation with noted author and social activist Arundhati Roy-