India, Nov. 15 -- Can Sonia Gandhi's vision of India stand alongside that of a person, Narendra Modi, born on this soil, without privilege, who struggled his way through the ranks of an organization and a political party to reach its helm?

Take up the White Man's burden-

Send forth the best ye breed-

Go, bind your sons to exile

To serve your captives' need;

To wait, in heavy harness

On fluttered folk and wild-

Your new-caught sullen peoples,

Half devil and half child

Kipling, 1899

In her recent memoir, "Belonging: A Journey of Love", Sonia Gandhi writes: "Narendra Modi's idea of India was constructed by the ideologies of the RSS and the experience of his own growing up. he was fighting for his vision of India, and I for mine." ...