From the Editor-in-Chief
Narendra Modi and Amit Shah seem a made-for-each-other duo. One is a charismatic personality, brilliant orator, keen strategist, full of audacious ideas, highly image-conscious, risk-taker and a star on the international stage. The other is an enforcer, organiser, micromanager, unconcerned about his image, has no international presence, freely interacts with the press unlike his mentor, who prefers to take the stage instead, and quite willing to play the bad cop of the duo.
It's never easy choosing INDIA TODAY'S Newsmaker of the Year, but our task was much easier in 2019. In May this year, Prime Minister Narendra Modi led his party to a landslide Lok Sabha victory, even larger than the one in 2014. The win came against heavy oddsan economic slowdown, agrarian distress and anti-incumbency. It cemented Modi's rise as a political phenomenon who successfully converted this election into a presidential-style referendumhim versus the rest. Much like Indira Gandhi did
