Mumbai, April 26 -- Politics allows for no illness or any sign of physical vulnerability, especially at election time. This might explain why the notoriously camera shy Odisha chief minister, Naveen Patnaik, had to telecast a video of himself working out in the gym, if only to allay persistent rumours of his failing health. Patnaik, one of the country's longestserving chief ministers, is arguably the most enigmatic. He can scarcely speak Oriya, is not a natural orator, has no glitzy marketing machine by his side, and yet remains undefeated in over two decades in politics. In an election in which the entire focus is almost obsessively on the Narendra Modi model of high decibel political rhetoric, is there an alternative Naveen model that perhaps offers a counter to the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) larger than life mascot?...