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Analysis

The Spectacle and the Silence

Modi avoids the press and fills stadiums instead. Twelve years. Four continents. The same formula every time: a crowd mobilised by invisible machinery, a press conference declined by visible design, and footage heading home to an audience trained not to ask why.