The other day, Pramod Sawant, the Chief Minister of Goa said after the SCO summit that now Narendra Modi has become a 'global leader'. Sawant unfortunately does not have the mental capacity to understand that India is a global leader in the world today and thus anyone in the position of Prime Minister or President of India, automatically becomes a global leader. In any case, one needs to say that Modi may have become a 'global leader' but unfortunately India is a laggard in most performance parameters in world matters today like the Hunger Index, child mortality rates, the Happiness index, economic well-being, etc. etc. Not only that Modi has often been critical of our first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru who also suffered from the accusations that he was more interested in his image in world affairs than matters internal to the country then Modi probably does not realise that he is treading the same path. While the country and the people are suffering from many maladies economic or otherwise, Modi and his party leaders are preening about him becoming a 'global leader'!
