New Delhi: It would be history in the making, in more senses than one. A man who once helped his family make ends meet by vending tea at a railway station in between his classes, and who once wandered around the country to find his spiritual moorings, will take his oath as India's 14th prime minister Monday in what would be a momentous occasion for India's polity, its neighbourhood and its global outreach.

India's prime minister elect Narendra Modi