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“DON'T TRY TO SQUEEZE INTO A GLASS SLIPPER,
INSTEAD, SHATTER THE GLASS CEILING”

The journey of a man who has attempted to put India respected globally and were not looked down upon as
on the Technology map of the World in a span of just 4 mere murderers, convicts or snake charmers. He dreamt
years- as perceived by a student of a country whose technological gains and educational
strengths could influence the world.
The iconic prime minister of India, MR NARENDRA MODI
Born to a Guajarati family NarendraDamodardasModi, Modi was introduced to the RSS ideologies at the tender
helped his father sell tea as a child, before he started age of 8, thus beginning his long association with the
his own stall. Today serving as the 14th Prime Minister organisation. Hewas only 9 years old when a massive
of the Republic of India, he has pioneered the concept flood in the Tapiriver created havoc. This little boy set
of “Digital India”. A creative IT personality, he has tried up a food stall with his friends and all its proceeds were
to digitize the Indian administrative system. He proved donated for the relief work. At this tender age he could
that excellence has no limits. realise that little steps can bring a BIG change.

Born on 17 September 1950,he is the third of the six Modi had always been a mighty dreamer and when
children born to Late ShriDamodardasMulchandModi bestowed upon with the opportunity to serve his nation,
and HirabenModi. His family belonged to the Modh- he realised that technology was that mighty tool which
Ghanchi -Teli (oil-presser) community, which has could help him serve his nation. A man with little formal
been identified as a “Backward class” by the Indian education could foresee how technology could the
government. knit nation together. Digitization and online platforms
eliminated the need for middle-men who were blooming
In a small single storey house in Vadnagar in Mehsana on a parallel economy since independence. Who could
district of Gujarat, began the story of this creative have ever dreamt that the entire nation would one day
dreamer, who dreamt of a life where “the mind is connect with the click of a button.
without fear and the head is held high”. He dreamt of a
life without sufferings and pain. He dreamt of a system It is only the ability to think DIFFERNTLY that has helped
free from “bureaucracy” and red-tapism, a system which him transform “rural India” into “Digital India”.
was gradually rendering us all, especially our youth, dis-
illusioned. He dreamt of a country whose citizens were Diya Kukreja, VIII-A

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