THE STAGE IS SET, AND THE WORLD ARRIVES
The air in Mumbai hums—not with the usual chaos of a metropolis at full throttle, but with something quieter, more deliberate: the weight of history shifting. The arrival of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, accompanied by a delegation of 125 officials, business leaders, technocrats, and academics, was never meant to be merely ceremonial. It was a pilgrimage. Not of obligation, but of recognition. The world had come to witness what India had quietly become: no longer a footnote in the ledger of global power, but a central node in the new architecture of the 21st century. And at the centre of this transformation stood Prime Minister Narendra Modi—not as a populist figure, but as the architect of a strategic reorientation so precise, so patient