Must read for everyone. Modi phenomenon: Propaganda or Reality? It was back in the summer of 2002 when I first heard of Narendra Modi, who was labeled “Butcher of Gujarat”. Being a naive boy who did not bother about exploring facts, it was but natural for me to believe everything said by friends, trust opinions of “experts” on TV shows and editors of magazines (notice that I have used the word “opinion” which is different from “report”. While news reports are based on real events, opinions are subjective and can be manipulative). Just like millions of other young Indians, I was also a staunch critic of Modi and even just a mention of his name used to make me nauseous. (How could someone even think of killing thousands of innocent people, still be arrogant/adamant and continue to be the CM?) Fastforward to 2008-09. After settling down with a job in IT industry and with some leisure time during weekends, I decided to take up some interesting online courses to explore non-technical subjects. One such course was about psychology where I learnt concepts like cognitive behavior, medias role in brainwash, mind manipulation & propaganda. And this got me thinking whether I am/was also a victim of a propaganda. I had to explore it by taking up one case. Since Modi had just then become a CM for the third term (which was indeed shocking. How could people vote for a mass murderer third time consecutively?), I decided to take up his case. http://guruprasad.net/posts/modi-phenomenon-propaganda-or-reality/Modi phenomenon: Propaganda or Reality? - Guruprasad's Portalguruprasad.netIt was back in the summer of 2002 when I first heard of Narendra Modi, who was labeled "Butcher of Gujarat". Being a naive boy who did not bother about exploring facts, it was but natural for me to believe everything said by friends, trust opinions of "experts" on TV shows and editors of magazines…

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