I don’t know if anyone noticed, given how low-key and low-profile this was, but the honourable Prime Minister was recently given a lap of honour at a stadium named after him in Ahmedabad. This happened at an inaugural Test match between India and Australia, at which the latter’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was also a guest.

The two renowned, globally respected world leaders raised their hands together as thousands of ecstatic cricket fans at the stadium cheered, and I was so excited that I jumped up and spilled my cup of tea. I’m sure millions of my fellow Indians applauded too, while watching this unfold on their television screens. After all, it is so rare for us to spot our Prime Minister. In fact, in the interests of transparency, I didn’t even watch the match given that I have never been interested in cricket. All I wanted to watch was those two amazing leaders doing their ‘lap of honour’. So well-deserved, I thought, switching off as the cricketers eventually entered the stadium.