Via his international popularity, India’s fifteenth Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, has brought the relevancy of India’s ancient world view home to the rest of the world. Until now, India’s culture and belief system have come across abroad as somewhat strange.  At a minimum, India has been poorly understood.

Although India is the world’s largest democracy, enormous gaps and blurs exist in the canvas seen by minds in the rest of the world. Modi is filling in these gaps and in sharpening the blurs.

The timing of Modi’s election was favorable. The internet and social media are bringing everything to everyone’s attention. India’s population is on the brink of prosperity. The new generation of Indian born immigrants and their descendants are spreading world wide. They are adopting new nationalities and integrating into new communities while keeping and sharing old traditions and values.

Modi’s commitments also appeal to most. His travels, his style, his discipline and his work ethic make good impressions.

The success of Narendra Modi’s first unity government, India’s first in three decades, confirms that liberty, democracy and modern thinking can succeed in any age and in any corner of our globe.