Sport, Industry and Soft Power: PM Modi’s presence, air-show, grand function and 1.4 billion fans
When Kapil’s Devils won the World Cup in 1983, cricket was still one of the sports in India and a champion team needed a true blue cricket fan Lata Mangeshkar to hold a concert so that each member could earn Rs 1 lakh. In 2011, when Mahendra Singh Dhoni’s team won, the BCCI was already …