TARS translate the data into Morse code . <| sep |> we ' ve been through this , Father Hudson . This person is small . Those people are far away . GFTgkibl 7 DU <| sep |> great for those long games where you ' re afk <| sep |> Dig looks so out of place there . <| sep |> Lime loopers and orange pulsus <| sep |> I guess this means people are taking notice P <| sep |> Huh . Seems like a missed opportunity , really . <| sep |> Ugh , stories like this make me so hesitant to look for another job insid the public service . <| sep |> Modi is quite unpopular among most of the affluent , universityeducated , leftleaning Indians in my desi circle . The Indian left is really just an offshoot of the Western left , in many ways a carbon copy because the leftist tradition in India was established by people like Nehru who picked up their ideologies from socialist clubs in the British universities where they were educated . So most of this crowd are agnostic internationalists and Lennonists ideologically indistinguishable from their cohorts in New York and London . Modi is a Hindu nationalist , which to them is an unforgivably provincial position to hold , never mind that India has been a Hindu civilization for millennia . The difference between India and America is that these people are outnumbered about a thousand to one in India . Like in America , most of these people live in cities unlike America , the coastal cities and surrounding towns don ' t hold the majority of the electorate . The rural vote is disproportionately powerful in America given its share of the population , but the rural vote can often be the only thing that matters in Indian elections . Trump might attract some of the more businessminded liberals , but I think he will remain anathema to the cultural elites since New York and LA are Democratic strongholds responsible for most of the opinionforming apparatus in the US . Modi , on the other hand , has the advantage that Bollywood can ' t really criticize him too harshly because Mumbai has some nasty local rightwing parties fond of bullying artists who don ' t toe the line . Modi ran on two basic promises . The first was to crack down on corruption like I said , the party that preceded him was ridiculously corrupt and bilked billions from taxpayers . The recent demonetization drive was part of his plan to tackle corruption . I think it went too far , but no one can deny he took it seriously . The second was to crack down on terrorism . The ten years preceding Modi saw a wave of terrorist attacks all over the country some of them were homegrown Islamist groups while others were armed , trained and funded by the Pakistani government . In the wake of every attack , there was always at least one spokesman from the progressive coalition eager to remind the nation that the real victims of terrorism were Muslims who struggle under Hindu oppression rather than the people splattered all over the walls . I think a lot of Hindus got tired of hearing that . It doesn ' t really surprise me that many Hindu rightwingers support Trump , because draining the swamp and banning Muslims from the US are basically American versions of Modi ' s promises . And they might get something out of that support , because a lot of people think Trump ' s presidency is a golden opportunity to try and sever America ' s ties to Pakistan . Modernization was going to happen anyway , it couldn ' t not happen when there are still hundreds of millions of Indians living in poverty . But Indian elections are just as tribal as American ones , so a lot of liberals and leftists will never get behind Modi no matter how much they believe in modernization and neoliberalism .