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Shinzo Abe in Gujarat: Will bullet train be a win-win for Japan and a no-win for India?

By:Tech Imam Shinzo Abe in Gujarat: Will bullet train be a win-win for Japan and a no-win for India? Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday heaped fulsome praise on Prime Minister Shinzo Abe while jointly inaugurating the Ahmedabad-Mumbai High Speed Rail Project (popularly known as bullet train). Modi said that Abe’s personal intervention and generous support paved the way for the speedy initiation of a project that would galvanise India’s development. Well, courtesy demands that we make a visiting dignitary feel good while he is on the Indian soil. To that extent, our prime minister is right when he paid rich tributes to his Japanese counterpart. But then ordinary citizens of India must learn to separate fact from fiction. They must know the forces that are at work to showcase the bullet train project as a gift of an over-generous Japanese government for a visionary Modi’s India. Is it a strange coincidence or an orchestrated design that just days before the inauguration of this ve...