UGC’s selfie points with PM Modi: It’s the nature of leaders to clone themselves as their nation
Sumana Roy | 18 December 2023 | Indian Express
“There was baby Lenin, looking like a cherub in his blond curls. Then Lenin in his twenties and thirties, bald and uptight, with that meaningless expression on his face which could be mistaken for anything, preferably a sense of purpose. This face in some way haunts every Russian and suggests some sort of standard for human appearance because it is utterly lacking in character.” This is Joseph Brodsky in his essay ‘Less than One’, trying to understand how the “militarisation of his childhood” and his encounter with Lenin’s photos everywhere, in offices and homes, in all imaginable and unimaginable locations, led him to see the world like he did.