Narendra Damodardas Modi (born 17 September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since 2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the second to complete five years in office after Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
Fighting Covid-19 in small-town India
How home-stay owners in Himachal Pradesh, a cautious mother in Assam, a photojournalist in Jabalpur are dealing with the pandemic The day-long Janata curfew on 22 March, announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi three weeks after cases of coronavirus started emerging in the country, showed that an overwhelming number of Indians follow his instructions.
For most of the day, Delhi’s streets were deserted enough for pigeons to reclaim them, and people in otherwise crowded cities were perplexed by a strange sound (it was birdsong).
At 5pm, the scenario changed. Splashed across television and social media were visuals of people congregating in hundreds on the streets, bursting crackers, taking out processions, many wishing the virus away with
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