Dreams are not what you see in sleep, dreams are those that do not let you sleep.”-Narendra ModiChapter 1 – Birth, Family, Childhood and Early StrugglesNarendra Damodardas Modi was born on 17 September 1950 in Vadnagar, a small town in Gujarat, India. He was born into a simple and economically modest family. No one could have imagined that this child from a small railway town would one day lead the world’s largest democracy.His father, Damodardas Mulchand Modi, ran a small tea stall at the Vadnagar railway station. Life was not easy. The family income was limited, and every rupee mattered.