
He is a part-time politician and a full-time supplier of
guns made in small “factories” of western Uttar Pradesh: guns of the illegal
and unreliable variety. As a politician, he has no ideology, unburdened by the
weight of political thought. He wants weapons, money, land and SUVs, and that’s
all that there is to his politics. (“A man’s likes and dislikes, and his source
of income are the only ideology that he needs,” he says.)
Rocky is a figure in white, from shirt to trousers