Narendra Modi: A Political Biography

Narendra Modi: A Political Biography by Andy Marino is a political biography that explores the life, personality, political career, and rise of Narendra Modi. The book mainly focuses on the journey that took Modi from his early life and involvement with the RSS to becoming the Chief Minister of Gujarat and later the BJP's leading national figure before the 2014 Lok Sabha election.

Andy Marino is a British author and television producer with an academic background in English Literature.

For this biography, Marino researched Modi's personal and political life and conducted interviews with Modi, political leaders, family members, friends and critics. He also spent time observing Modi during the 2014 election campaign.

Marino's purpose was to understand the person behind Modi's public political image and explain how he developed from a political organizer into one of India's most prominent political leaders.

The book begins with Modi's early life and childhood and describes experiences that contributed to his later political identity. It then follows his involvement with the RSS, where he developed organizational and political skills.

The narrative moves into Modi's involvement with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Marino describes how Modi gradually became an important political organizer and strategist.