Kutch district

"Kutch nahin dekha to kuchh nahin dekha (If you haven’t seen Kutch, you haven’t seen anything)"

"Modi’s handling of Kutch reconstruction has become a role model for the rest of the world."

"The entire Kutch was in deep mourning. Every eye was filled with tears. In our small village of 150 homesteads, there were 35 deaths. Before Modi ji, no chief minister, no minister had come to wipe our tears. Our entire village was still covered with rubble and he had to walk over the malba (rubble) of collapsed homes to move from one area to another.After the first few weeks of relief work, everyone had abandoned us...Within three years Modi managed to reconstruct Kutch from scratch. Look at our own house—it has two airy, well-constructed rooms with a kitchen, bathroom, and a big courtyard. It is earthquake-resistant"

"Modi’s opponents have assured that none of this got any attention outside Gujarat. Since our academia and the social science community has deeply internalised anti-Modi propaganda, no social scientist has bothered to study the story of Kutch rising out of its own ashes, of its transformation from a subsistence economy to among the fastest growing economies of India. Unfortunately, even the BJP has not taken the trouble to let the rest of India know this story."