- Born
- Birth nameNarendra Damodardas Modi
- Nicknames
- India's Ronald Reagan
- NaMo
- Height5′ 7″ (1.70 m)
- Narendra Modi was born on September 17, 1950 in Vadnagar, State of Bombay, India. He is an actor and writer, known for Garbo (2023), Leera the Soulmate (2018) and Naani Krissh's Jai Shree Ram (2024).
- One of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World. [April 2014].
- Merited a place in TIME magazine's "The 100 Most Influential People" issue with an homage penned by Pankaj Mishra.
- Prime Minister of India (26 May 2014-).
- We should not look at terrorism from the name-plates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are their victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you may be looking at another name. We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on Intenational Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion.
- If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will easily and with any doubt choose democratic values. So if you were to ask me whether you need a dictatorship to run India, no you do not.
- I was born in a very poor family. I used to sell tea in a railway coach as a child. My mother used to wash utensils and do lowly housework in the houses of others to earn a livelihood. I have seen poverty very closely. I have lived in poverty. As a child, my entire childhood was steeped in poverty. For me, poverty - in a way - was the first inspiration in my life.
- Different departments tend to work in silos - each seems to be a government in itself. My effort has been to break these silos down, so that everybody looks at a problem in a collective manner. I see the federal government not as an assembled entity but as an organic entity.
- My philosophy, the philosophy of my party and the philosophy of my government is 'Sabka saath' - Together with all, progress for all...My government will not accept tolerate or accept any discrimination based on caste, creed, and religion.
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