Surjit Bhalla, an Indian economist, has written to me that India’s is “the most momentous election in world history”. I disagree: the elections of Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano Roosevelt were more significant. But the idea is not absurd. India’s population is 1.27bn. Soon it will overtake China as the most populous country. If the election of Narendra Modi were to transform India, it would transform the world.
印度經濟學家蘇爾吉特?巴拉(Surjit Bhalla)給我寫信稱，此次印度大選是“世界歷史上最重大的一次選舉”。我不同意，我認為亞伯拉罕?林肯(Abraham Lincoln)和富蘭克林?德蘭諾?羅斯福(Franklin Delano Roosevelt)當選美國總統的意義更重大。但他的觀點并不荒謬。印度有12.7億人口，不久后將超過中國成為全球第一人口大國。如果納倫德拉?莫迪(Narendra Modi)的當選將改變印度，也將改變全世界。
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