Moddi's Life Essay

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1. Childhood and Family

Narendra Damodardas Modi was born into a underprivileged ‘Ghanchi’ family in the small town of Vadnagar on 17th September 1950. His forefather 's family are oil pressers from a family, Ranchoddas that settled in Vadnagar in the late 19th century. His father, Damodardas Mulchand, owned a grocery/tea stall near the Vadnagar railway station. It supported a family of eight, living resided in a small three-room house made of mud and bricks. The family bathed and washed clothes in a nearby lake.

He was an average student but excelled in co-curricular activities in his school, especially debate and plays. Modi as a student was always inquisitive and troubled the teachers. His young mind was filled with

He learned not to be dependent on money. This phase of Modi’s life as a young wanderer is similar to that of Subhas Chandra Bose’s wanderings, who also a young age went out in search of a spiritual guru. The experience of his wanderer days would forever leave a mark on Modi and according to Modi himself this phase of his life taught him many useful life lessons.

The adventures in his life do not end with him returning back to his home in Vadnagar but rather intensified.

5. After returning from his spiritual wanderings, Modi without delay contacted his mentor Inamdar. He was now certain about what he wanted to do. He commited himself to the political service of the country. He went to Delhi and stayed and helped his uncle Babubhai who owned a small canteen to earn his livelihood.

He later returned to Ahmedabad and by active participation in RSS rose in position under the guidance of mentor, ‘Vakil

On 25th June 1975, in just one day, India, from being the largest democracy in the world degenerated into a dictatorship. For the following 21 months India would be under the firm autocratic rule of Mrs Gandhi. During those days, to some Indira was India and India was Indira. It was during those notorious dark days of emergency that Narendra Modi played an instrumental part in resisting dictatorship as a young cadre of RSS. His revolutionary actions might have also indirectly forced Indira to call off the emergency.

In Gujarat the RSS had embraced the Nav Nirman Movement and created a large network of underground operatives. The RSS also managed to create a co-ordinating committee for the fight against emergency- the Gujarat Lok Sangharsh Samiti (GLSS). It was in these trying times that Narendra Modi became an active underground revolutionary for overthrowing the dictatorship of Mrs Gandhi.Narendra Modi took active part in transporting activists, arranging secret meeting and creating safe houses for the party members.

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During the emergency Modi’s ingenuity and bravery was noted by the RSS top brass. As the author Andy Marino, Modi’s biographer, writes ‘On one outing he would appear as a saffron-robed sanyasi, on another as a turbaned Sikh. One time he was sitting in a railway carriage, hiding behind a thick black beard..’; his penchant for disguise to avoid capture was well