EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Nothing captures a nation’s zeitgeist better than a political slogan. In the mid-1960s in India, it was the guns and butter ‘. It signified India’s rising military-industrial base and the start of the Green Revolution. This helped independent India realise what was unarguably its most significant achievement—the ability to feed all its people. In 1971, it was Indira Gandhi’s ‘’ which signalled the country’s socialist turn (for the worse). In the 1970s, ‘ became a call to rid the country of a democrat who had briefly turned dictator. More recently, in 2004, it was the. A decade later, Narendra Modi stormed the national stage with his vow of ‘.