With the overwhelming majority of the masses either illiterate, funtionally illiterate or barely literate and living way below the poverty line, such things as 'national interests' are way over their heads - thats' why they're so easily fooled by the Comunists-Leftists by things closer like promises of some token freebies - poor people, who make up the overwhelming majority of the voters, care first and foremost about the basics - feeding themselves; then housing, clothes, schools, health-care and the like. Fretting about such high-minded stuff like India's place in the world is a luxury only the well-off and well-heeled can indulge in? Waht does he mean "ready yourself to pay the price..", they're already paying the price - it can only get worse - all downhill from here, a la democracy Indian ishtyle - pussillanimity.
