Even among the ranks of the much-derided and beleaguered left, a Modi victory is apparently on the cards. Many leftists in India and abroad worry about the “frontrunner” in India’s national elections, and urge others to worry, too, at the grim future that lies ahead. There is scarcely any room for doubt amidst such prophesies of doom and gloom. Closer to the seat of power in New Delhi, the columnist G. Sampath writes forebodingly: “If the Indian political landscape is under the dark clouds of fascism, it is not because of what Modi might do if he comes to power but because there could be a mass endorsement of what he might do if he comes to power.” According to Sampath, “a dynastic Congress full of parallel political entrants with little grassroot connect" can hardly match up to the challenge presented by the Modi-supporting masses. Ominously, he adds, the “rage of the masses, as the sub-continent knows too well, can wreak terrible havoc.” Fear-mongering among leftists, bereft of mass support, has thus come to coexist with elite liberals coyly awaiting their new patron in Delhi.