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...twist his nation's soul, Narendra Modi is first conquering its heart. He's halfway through another 20-hour day on his "Journey of Pride" across the western state of Gujarat, India's industrial powerhouse, and as everywhere, Modi is being mobbed. After a brief speech, he flops, sweating and exhausted, back into the passenger seat of his election campaign bus. The crowd won't leave him alone, however. They reach in through the windows of the bus, heaping armfuls of orange marigold garlands and heady rose petals onto his legs. But his supporters?fervent Hindus all?aren't taken...
...instigating the earlier revenge killings. But they could also indicate an awareness of the consequences of failing to address the treatment of Muslims in India. Another political consideration: the cynical view that anti-Muslim rhetoric may be more useful in a few months as Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi seeks re-election...
...Adding political insult to injury, Gujarat's top politician, Chief Minister Narendra Modi, dissolved the local legislature in mid-July and called for early elections?to cash in, his political opponents allege, on support from the majority Hindu population in the wake of the violence. (89.5% of the state's population is Hindu and just 8.5% Muslim.) That provoked an uproar in New Delhi's Parliament last week, as the opposition accused the ruling party of backing Modi, the leader of the Gujarat BJP. But Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani did not relent. "You abuse a Chief Minister...
...Gujarat, the birthplace of the mahatma, is a proudly pious state where alcohol is banned and vegetarianism extolled. Modi is expected to win the elections there handily. But there are some signs of a backlash, of public revulsion at what has occurred since February. "It was a doomed, horrible time and best forgotten," laments a shopkeeper in Ahmadabad, who admits to running with a mob that killed 83 people in the neighborhood of Naroda. "I think everyone lost all sense. Muslims were killed, but in the end we all suffered...
...brought them to the refugee camps. Still, anger is rising and retaliation possible. Earlier this month, a crude bomb exploded in a village, killing three Hindus near a school, and locals quickly blamed it on avenging Muslims. In Pandarwada, the Muslims are worried about the state elections. If Modi's side wins, they say, none of their attackers will be punished. Which makes going back to their old lives all but impossible. Ghani Ahmed, a driver, lives in a canvas tent but he's already purchased new books for his children to replace the ones torched in March because...