But he didn’t, for a genuine discussion would call for looking at both the good points and the bad points of the Gujarat model in some detail. If he had used the occasion to even discuss the Gujarat model threadbare, he would have done some good. He used the ruse of a discussion on the Gujarat model and human development indicators and the Food Security Act to tell his students whom to vote for. Since he did not want to do this directly, he chose to send it indirectly. ![]() The message Principal Frazer Mascarenhas wanted to send his students, and the world at large, was simple: don’t vote for Narendra Modi. Plus, if you want to send a political message when you shouldn’t, it is possible to couch it in all kinds of high-sounding ideas and still get your message across. ![]() If there is one thing that the message sent by the principal of Mumbai’s St Xavier’s College to students proves, it is this: in this election, almost no one is really non-partisan.
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