Some time back I had written a piece called 'Bal Thackerary or why the communists did nothing'. I had then wanted to know how left-leaning working class of Mumbai shifted by the 1980s to the Shiv Sena. Could we for example talk about things like the 'mistakes' left parties made? Just as we could find links between these 'mistakes' and the rise of the Shiv Sena, so also today such links can be found with the rise of 'soft fascism'. Now I feel we have grounds to write, 'Narendra Modi, or why the left and secularists did nothing'.