Farmers Protest: Why Are Some âLiberalsâ Invoking the Legacy of Margaret Thatcher?
In her home country today, derisive references to Margaret Thatcher are far more common than benign ones. But in India, time seems to have stood still since her glory days.
Narendra Modi and Margaret Thatcher. Photo: Reuters Illustration: The Wire
Rights18/Dec/2020
Fully 30 years after she was eased out of her job by her own party, Indian admirers of Britainâs Iron Lady are sending up fervent prayers for Margaret Thatcher Redux. Hacks are flooding the media space with froth as they sing paeans to the dear departed lady. (Their ardent hope is to be delivered soon from the ignominy of too much democracy.) And they donât want their readers to remember that, alone among Britainâs many Oxford-educated prime ministers, it was Thatcher whom her alma mater refused to award an honorary doctorate. She was still very much in power, and her lobbyists had left few stones unturned in the