Work that is life’s poem: The poignant poetry of Narendra Modi

The surprising poignancy of Narendra Modi’s poetry: Chandrahas Choudhury in Caravan

One of the book’s most repeated tropes is that of what we might call the “superior man’s loneliness,” which stems from his own sense of a higher calling, or from the world’s inability to empathise with his dilemma, or—we see a fascinating dialectical tension beginning to operate here—from his own inherent lack of trust in the world because of its perceived fickleness.