“The abrogation of labour laws in {{w|Bharatiya Janatat Party}}-ruled states (which could not have been done without Modi’s approval) is meant to make the {{w|labour market}} more insecure rather than less. Some {{w|Indian Revenue Service}} officers were punished recently for even suggesting that higher taxes should be collected from the rich. In short, the Modi government in its mindlessness is still picking up the intellectual crumbs that had fallen from the {{w|High Table}} of the metropolitan establishment “four decades” ago, without realising that the world has moved on.”