On September 17, 2025, as the sun rises over the nation he has so tirelessly served, India will celebrate the 75th birthday of Prime Minister Narendra Modi—a milestone that marks not just the passage of years, but also his extraordinary odyssey from the lanes of Vadnagar to the pinnacle of global leadership. Narendra Modi rose from a life of humble service to a life of public service based upon a simple but powerful tenet: nation first, self last.

PM Modi gave Indian politics a much-needed reset: a politics of performance and trust. Governance moved from promises to measurable outcomes, from slogans to dashboards, from five-year plans to weekly reviews. The mantra reform, perform, transform became a management system: reform to remove roadblocks, perform to prove credibility, and transform to compound results.

Before 2014, he built and stress-tested his governance template in Gujarat. Discipline, resolute focus, target orientation, and an obsession with execution formed the flywheel, and this model was carried to New Delhi and operationalised at scale.

Consider the new public rails that now power everyday life in India. Digital Public Infrastructure (Aadhaar, UPI, Digi Locker, Open Network for Digital Commerce, etc.) collapsed friction for citizens and small firms; money moves instantly, credit can be priced on data rather than collateral, and the most vulnerable are visible to the system without intermediaries.

The Jan Dhan-Aadhaar-Mobile (JAM) trinity enabled record direct benefit........

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