Karnataka is now the last bastion of a terminally ill Congress and possibly also of what is termed loosely as “secular socialism”, which has been the dominant political theme of India for more than six decades. The three scenarios narrated above and the almost totally muted reaction of the mainstream media to the same gives us an inkling of the emerging political reality of India, a country that is probably at a crossroad of civilisational metamorphosis. The ‘Idea of India’ as we have known it for long through a prism that is copyrighted to Lutyen’s intellectual class is engaged in a clash with a new India that is personified by one man: Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi, possibly as dramatically as President Raegan once personified a new America.