Now that the Great Indian Election Circus has started rolling, and the NaMo chant is being heard loudest over the others in the campaign din, the prospect of the Gujarat chief minister morphing into the prime minister of India is beginning to raise serious concerns in the West, even among those who have not missed an opportunity earlier to run down the Congress-led UPA government. The Economist went so far as to ask the Indian voter to consider Rahul Gandhi over Modi. “We do not find the prospect of a government led by Congress under Mr Gandhi an inspiring one. But we have to recommend it to Indians as the less disturbing option.”