POLITICIANS thrive on staying in the news. No publicity is bad publicity for them, as the old saying goes. For all the condemnation and arraignment heaped on Narendra Modi over the Gujarat riots, he went from being chief minister to prime minister. When I once asked him during a decade-old conversation whether ceaseless accusations bothered him, he alluded to the advantage of being in the public gaze.
Politicians are not equally adept at this but they try with varying success. At a time when talking points are increasingly set by social media and acrimonious news television debates. . .