Narendra Modi: A Political Biography

Back in the chopper, at the end of the rally, Modi again settled over some papers, this time a printout of emails sent to him. Modi passed the paper to me. A Ukrainian lady had written to him. She was recently married to an Indian and now that she was getting to know the country she congratulated Modi on what he had achieved in Gujarat. But her main point concerned the 2014 election. Back in 2005, she said, they had a chance to change the system in Ukraine - it was the time of the ' Orange Revolution' - but they blew it. If you have the chance to change India, she wrote, don't fail us, because there is nobody else who can do it. If in 2014 Narendra Modi occupies the prime minister's residence at 7 Race Course Road, it will be the end of a long and unexpected journey for the poor, backward-class boy from a small Gujarat town called Vadnapar.