Modi's Award Factory: A Symptom of India's Leadership Crisis As Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned from his trip to Seychelles over the weekend, he brought home yet another honorary title.
The "Guardian of the Blue Horizon" award, bestowed upon him by the Seychelles president, bears all the hallmarks of a hastily created honorarium designed to boost Modi's international image.
The controversy surrounding this latest award may seem like just another instance of diplomatic blundering, but scratch beneath the surface and it becomes clear that this is part of a larger pattern.