Milestones and tenures are not the correct measures of an epoch of transformation. They are mere statistics. When Narendra Modi becomes the longest serving democratically elected prime minister of India, it is more than crossing a milestone. The spirit of the time cannot be captured in numbers alone — and in that spirit, he symbolises the genius of India.
The arc of his public life transitions from ordinary to extraordinary. His journey began as an ordinary RSS worker who drew inspiration from the Sangh Parivar. Unlike conventional politicians of the times, he had no political or elitist pedigree. What he gained through his ground experience endowed him with exceptional insights into people’s anxieties and aspirations. He chose politics as his vocation and aligned it with his ideological pursuit. What helped him are his asceticism in personal life and pragmatism in public conduct.
