The remote control is back in his hand, thanks to that rare phase in history when individual choices and national interests coalesce. His interests are the national interests and vice versa.
The Uri attack and the surgical strikes in Pakistan-Occupied-Kashmir (PoK) that followed have given Prime Minister Narendra Modi that moment. And hasn’t he seized the initiative? Wasn’t he looking for this moment?
The script had gone awry in the last few months. Crushing defeat in the Bihar assembly elections, Dalit movements across the country, the rise of Patidars in Gujarat and Marathas in Maharashtra and renewed unrest in the Kashmir Valley — these events perhaps had given sleepless nights to Modi. He did not look like he was on top of the situation on most of these issues.