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“I would go away for the five days of Diwali. Somewhere in a jungle... no radio or newspapers and, during that time, there was no TV or internet anyway... The strength that this alone time gave me still helps me handle life and its various experiences.” Speaking to ‘Humans of Bombay’, a popular Facebook page, PRIME MINISTER NARENDRA MODI offered this profound-sounding tidbit about his life before he became a political phenomenon. Such periods of introspection, he said, gave him the selfconfidence to be “undeterred by what others say about you”. How it must stick in political journalists’ collective craw, that the prime minister, unavailable to the press corps at large, is happy to give self-help tips on social media.