It was Narendra Modi in 2014, and it is him again in 2019. That's Lok Sabha elections for you. Five years ago, the people turned it into a tsunami that swept the ruling UPA away like never before. After that landslide victory, voters today are split vertically — pro-Modi and anti-Modi. Of course, the majority shall win.

What is striking is that the PM's party comes later in the order of discussion in the public discourse. Modi is dissected as the country's neta who has taken policy decisions that find both favour and opposition among contemporary leaders and the janta. The articulate speak up, debate and counter each other in the streets and drawing rooms. Views expressed are extreme, the language exchanged is unheard of and the passion unseen in recent times.