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Wright, in turn, attended a lecture in the late 1980s on the GF Watts painting entitled Hope, which inspired his sermon, in which he said: “…with her clothes in rags, her body scarred and bruised and bleeding, her harp all but destroyed and only a string left to her One, she had the audacity to make music and praise God… Take the one thread you have left and have the audacity to hope…” (emphasis added).
The words of the sermon seem remarkably appropriate in the present Indian context; They seem to paint a picture of the dumb state of Indian democracy and give context to our audacity to hope that Indians can win back their democracy. Perhaps these are the elections that marked the beginning of this process.
The CSDS-Lokniti survey, released in the first week of April, indicated a 5 percent gap between the BJP-led NDA and the Congress-led Bloc. There are reasons to believe that the gap has narrowed.
Twenty years ago, in 2004, the ruling NDA under Atal Bihari Vajpayee enjoyed a much wider perception gap, with 48% apparently willing to vote for it again. In 2024, according to the Lokniti poll, Modi has 44 percent support.
Few saw the tide in 2004. Or expected the BJP’s ‘India Shining’ campaign to blow up in his face. In the noise of today’s media propaganda, it is more difficult to register the mutterings in the field, the discontent among the people, but it exists.
