Polished English ko maar goli, Modi’s opening gambit to multiple Heads of State is random blah about their accounts on “Twitter”
@elonmusk please note.
What was even more embarrassing
@Tejasvi_Surya was the fact that these leaders are oblivious of his multi-million X account where you lot cocoon him with your sycophantic drivel.
Shah’s Hindi pronouncements, clearly show they are not content with impoverishing citizens of their right to earn and feed their families, or be safe, but they also seek to rob us of global language skills.
#HindiImposition #ModiAtG7
Over the past few days, a certain class of Indians — fluent in English, insecure in identity — has been mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for not speaking ‘polished’ English in global forums. Their ridicule reveals not his weakness, but their own deeply entrenched colonial inferiority.
Modi, unlike Nehru, didn’t have the family background to be sent to Harvard or Oxford. He didn’t grow up speaking English in Lutyens’ drawing rooms. He comes from absolute poverty, had no formal elite education, and built his life brick by brick. He perhaps speaks more languages, including English, than most leaders who come from one language speaking countries. And yet, this very man — self-made, self - taught, grounded, and driven — has led India to global prominence and cracked billion-dollar deals with world leaders in boardrooms from Washington to Abu Dhabi. All without putting on a fake accent or fake impression. He is as OG as it can get.
When he stands next to the British Prime Minister or French President and speaks in Hindi — as the elected head of a country that now has a bigger economy than its former coloniser — that is not a moment of embarrassment. It is a moment of civilisational confidence. It is India standing tall, on its own terms.
For far too long, English fluency — not intellect, not ideas, not integrity — has been the passport to power in India. Many geniuses were sidelined, laughed at, or dismissed for not speaking the “right” English. And many undeserving elites coasted purely on their accent. Modi represents every Indian who was told “you don’t belong” because of how they spoke.
So to those sniggering behind your keyboards and trolling a real achiever: you’re not mocking Modi — you’re mocking the millions who finally see a leader who looks like them, speaks like them, and never pretended to be anything else. Modi is aspirational precisely because of his story.
And if your biggest problem with the Prime Minister of India is that he doesn’t speak like a BBC anchor — maybe it’s time you enrolled in a course. Not in English, but in self-respect.
It’s time to retire the brown sepoy mindset. English is just a language. Narendra Modi is a phenomenon. And India, led by him, is no longer taking permission to rise — it’s rising on its own terms. 🇮🇳
English is just a language.
Self respect is a civilisation. 🇮🇳