Man and myth collide as India's Modi eyes final ascent to power


  • World
  • Friday, 04 Apr 2014

Hindu nationalist Narendra Modi, prime ministerial candidate for India's main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Gujarat's chief minister, attends the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) national convention in New Delhi, in this February 27, 2014 file photograph. REUTERS/Stringer/Files

VADNAGAR, India (Reuters) - Narendra Modi spent his childhood in a modest three-room dwelling made of mud and brick nestled in a narrow, crowded lane in the western Indian town of Vadnagar.

The tea stall his father ran with the help of his sons is just as it was then, a small shed of patched blue-grey tin on the platform of the ramshackle railway station nearby.

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