TIME Magazine cover: PM Modi Responds, questions author’s credibility

mangaloretoday network

New Delhi, May 18: Nearly a week after the internationally reputed magazine TIME ran a cover story on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, terming him ‘Divider-in-chief’, the man in question has responded to the magazine having called him so.

The story, written by novelist and journalist Aatish Taseer, questioned if the world’s largest democracy could "endure another five years of a Modi government."

According to NDTV, PM Modi in response, on Friday, 17 May, reportedly said:

"“TIME magazine is foreign, the writer has also said he comes from a Pakistani political family. That is enough for his credibility.”"

The TIME story also makes references to the attacks on minorities by lynch mobs, Modi’s record on women’s issues, the demonetisation move, Sadhvi Pragya Thakur’s candidacy, among others.

However, besides the cover story, the same issue also carried another piece on the Prime Minister, titled ‘Modi, the reformer’, by Ian Bremmer.

Notably, in May 2015, TIME had carried another cover story on PM Modi, titled ‘Why Modi Matters’. It was accompanied by an interview with the PM and carried the tagline “The world needs India to step up as a global power. One year in, can Prime Minister Narendra Modi deliver?”