Golf Games Scratched as Modi Rattles India Bureaucracy: Economy

Lock
This article is for subscribers only.

On most mornings for the past two years, Sanjay would caddy for a group of Indian bureaucrats as they played a round at Delhi’s most prestigious golf club amid strutting peacocks and 15th century monuments.

“Suddenly they’ve stopped playing,” Sanjay, who goes by one name and has been a caddy at The Delhi Golf Club for 25 years, said this week. “It’s because of Modi. He expects them to be at work, not at the club.”