Updated: February 05, 2021 4:07 pm IST
The steps being taken by the central government in response to international celebrity tweets for solidarity with the Indian farmers struggles can be expected in a country with a tinpot dictator, defined as "an autocratic ruler, with delusions of grandeur", the allusion being to tin, a cheap metal masquerading as something more solid - but certainly not from an elected government of the world's largest democracy as we have in India. The Prime Minister's popularity, going by recent surveys, is the highest among all country heads the world over. Then why this reaction to a few tweets? Have we become such a weak nation under such a strong Prime Minister?