ABOUT THE BOOK

This coffee-table book is very unique in the sense that it has some rare collections of photographs of a great visionary-Narendra Modi depicting his journey from Vadnagar, a small village in Gujarat to 7 Race Cource in New Delhi. His magnetism and mass appeal have given decisive mandate after thirty years in Indian history, turning challenges into victory. The clear mandate can shift the political direction and centre of power with the change in the government. To deal with the ideological difference will remain Herculean task for the newly elected Prime Minister. His main focus will be development agenda but the RSS will hold on to its core issues like Ram Mandir, Article 370, a uniform civil code, etc. His vision of less government and more governance in the new regime is well appreciated and 10-point action plan announced by his government shows his vision for overall development of the country. People voted for a decisive leader and chose decisive leader and politics of action rather than that of inclusion. According to a survey conducted by India Today Group-Cicero, 83 per cent of the respondents claim that India needs decisive leader. During election campaign, we found him interacting with the poor, the downtrodden and peers. He appears to be a leader both humble and grounded, steering the party to historic mandate and that is what is needed at the top. Gujarat has been turned around to become a high growth state under his leadership. Modi has never spoken about personal aspirations. A Gujarat Chief Minister, he speaks of six crore Gujaratis but as the BJP`s Prime Minister candidate he speaks of more than 125 crore population of India.

ABOUT Author

Aashu Patel (Ed.) : During his illustrious career as a journalist spanning over 27 years Ashu Patel has written for `Samkaalin`, `Abhigyan`, `Yug-Darshan`, `Sandesh`, `Gujarat Mitra`, `Gujarat Guardian`, `Gujarat Samachar`, `Mumbai Samachar`, and many esteemed publications. He authored informative weekly columns, many interesting series and novels. He has presided over the post of the Editor in many newspapers. In the daily ``Mumbai Samachar`` his daily column ``Sukh no pass word`` is very popular among the readers of the daily. Twenty four books authored by him have been published so far. As a Journalist Ashu Patel has travelled may countries including America, Hong-Kong, Macau, Thailand, and China. As a specially invited guest of American Government`s foreign newspaper he was given the special privilege to travel the country and the opportunity to meet the senior members of `The Department of States`, during this tour of U.S. He also give speeches at University of Columbia, Chicago`s Medill school of journalism, and San Francisco University. Dilip Thaker began his journey as a photo-journalist at the ripe age of 20 years in the year 1974. In his illustrious career as a photo-journalist spanning over the course of 40 years. He has worked for `Jayhind`, `Gujarat Samachar`, `Abhiyan`, `Sakal`, `Divya Bhaskar`, ``Ahmedabad Mirror`` and many other esteemed publishers. He has presided over the position of `The Photo Editor` in the times group`s English daily ``Ahmedabad Mirror``. He has also held the position of Chief Photographer in `Divya Bhasker`. During his career spanning over four decades he has completed may risky assignments that includes natural catastrophes, such as, earthquakes and communal tensions manifested into riots. He has witnessed, many elections, along with many sports events and cultural events, and has also notably captured these events in photographs. Dilip Thaker heads the position of Photo Consultant at ``B.J. Institute of learning and research``, and he was awarded ``The 44th Rajya Kala Pradarshan Award`` by Lalit Kala Academy. Many state level and nation level exhibitions displaying his photography have also taken place.