India, Aug. 10 -- Listen to the Young During his visit to Seychelles, Modiji is reported to have spent time meeting the oldest living animal, a 194-year-old tortoise. But in India, he has no time to listen to the younger generation, the unemployed young people of his homeland. They are 'parasites' for him, mere cockroaches. Our Prime Minister is one of the few among world leaders who loves to roam abroad (to escape the "messy" India he has created?), trotting the globe on a popularity hunt, visiting the Indian diaspora ... recently in New Zealand. Taxpayers pay crores for his luxury tours.

He had time and energy to go to meet the Gujaratis in America, but not the tribal people in a conflict-ridden Manipur. He was in Tinsukia and Sibsaga...