My husband came home today and said, he feels that since the BBC documentary about Indian Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, there has been a lot of opposition building up against him in the West. At the same time he was proud to watch the prime minister’s strong response to BBC reporter.
I am saddened to watch and hear what has been going on. I do keep on telling myself that it is not my place to express how I feel but if I didn’t then I haven’t been honest with my expression.
Although I have lived in UK for past 20yrs, being a person of Indian origin and most of my family still living in India, I have been paying close attention to what has been happening in India.
All I know is that the way India has progressed in the last 15-20 yrs, since Shri Narendra Modi became the prime minister, it had never happened even after 60- 70 yrs of Independence. Politicians who were in power before him were busy filling their own pockets and their generations after generations will never have to lift a finger in their life.
Compared to those politicians, if we see Mr Modi, who is a man of such high morals and character, that common people like us can not even imagine living and practicing. He has lived his life alone, like in exile, no immediate family lives with him. The wife he had lives on her own in a remote village in India is a very ordinary school teacher with very limited means. His brother and his mother live an ordinary life in a very small 2 bedroom house. Shri Modi ji has not given or done anything for his own family or relatives. He has fully dedicated his life for his country. The whole country is his family. If country progresses or benefits, his family will have some hope of a better life.
My apologies, I just found out Modi ji’s beloved mother died a week ago. May god help her soul rest in peace.
Besides him, I do not know of any other of a prime minister from India or any other place who has made such sacrifices for the greater good of mankind.
Being a woman, when I think about his wife, my heart goes out to her. What a sacrifice she has made to dedicate her life and live in exile.
I have nothing but great respect for Shri Narendra Modi and his estranged wife who no one knew about, up until a few years ago when media people unfairly started excavating his personal life.
For the first time, I and my family in India are proud to say that we are from Indian origin. We like so many other Indians, were not proud to be known as Indians before. There were so many negative things about India, including corruption on top of the list. These are not just my sentiments, most of the Indians and non resident Indians share the same feelings.
The other thing he has taught us Indians is “to be proud of our religion”. Religion is a way of life and all religions guide us to be better human beings and we should all be proud of practicing our religion and culture and not be ashamed of it or hide it in some way or the other.
Shri Narendra Modi has put India on a completely different pedestal on the world Map. This is likely to threaten and upset a few people in India and all around the world.
As far as BBC Documentary is concerned, I am saddened to see that not only they were allowed to create something like this, it was approved to be telecast creating disharmony and hatred.
In my life I have watched various programmes and documentaries developed by BBC, especially the ones made on India but I have to say, I do not remember a single documentary that ever showed India in good light. I have never known of BBC making anything positive about India ever. I used to wonder and say, watching their programmes and often ask this question?
How do BBC find these remote areas with all kind of atrocities happening in India but they never show, any of the good things that are happening in India.
such as if you are watching a documentary on Mumbai, which is the most vibrant and dynamic city in India, BBC would find people sleeping on footpath and project that on the world platform and not the remarkable progress the city has made and stands out in so many extraordinary ways.
The BBC created image of India is of a most backward, suppressed, oppressed, full of atrocities, hatred, crime, dangers, extreme poverty India which is far from truth in this day and age.
Today’s India is a progressive, fast developing, creative, independent, extremely strong and a very able, tolerant and proud nation.
I have never come across a single BBC programme projecting this image of today’s India? My apologies if I have missed any!
Have you?
