India, June 14 -- He has proved a crisis manager par excellence. Only his steely resolve, courage and meticulous action could have carried 1.4 billion Indians through the once-in-a-century calamity of the pandemic and made it an opportunity. He now steers India through the perilous upending of the geopolitical and geoeconomic order.
Last week Prime Minister Narendra Modi became the longest continuously serving Prime Minister India has elected. The milestone is his, and it is India's: no one has governed this democracy longer at a stretch, none through three consecutive wins amid politics this competitive. Beyond the record, what matters is what he did: every "unforgiving minute" filled for India with "sixty seconds' worth of distance run",...