Ahmedabad, 7 February 2014

Another book on Narendra Modi will be out in market this month. The book ‘Narendra Modi The Gamechanger’ has been authored by Delhi based Sudesh Verma.

Introduction note of the 400-plus page book says: When he(Modi) was a young boy of 13, he received a near-fatal injury due to attack by a crocodile in the lake he swam daily. He was bed-ridden for more than a week. “It hit like a sword on my ankle,” he said and showed to the author the scar he got due to the nine stitches.Modi was a victim of child marriage, a usual practice in the backward Ghanchi caste, but his desire to serve larger causes persuaded him to skip the final stage of the three-stage Gujarati marriage…………………….The Modi family had ancestral links with Rajasthan. How Modis became a backward oil pressing community in Gujarat is baffling? Some say that the original backward Modis migrated from Bihar, where there are still people with the Modi surname in oil pressing trade. The veracity of the claim, however, could not be established.

The introduction note says:The book is a product of intense research of one year by a dedicated team that sifted through more than 50,000 hyperlinks, a dozen book on Modi including the ones in Gujarati language and various research papers. The author and his team interviewed more than 100 people, mostly those impacted by the initiatives undertaken by the chief minister.

The introduction note further says: This book is an attempt to bust the cultivated myths being spread against him(Modi).

Author Sudesh K Verma(M.Phil Degree in International Studies from the Jawaharlal University) is a senior journalist currently working as News Editor, NewsX . In a career spanning more than two decades, he worked for, among others, The Statesman, Deccan Chronicle, The Business Standard , India News Television Channel and in the British High commission for over three years as Senior Political Analyst. He was a social-political activist and led Youth 4 Democracy movement. He supported the Aam Aadmi Party and became one of its founding members, but later left the party and rejoined journalism.The author concludes that Modi is the country’s best bet for deliverance.