The ‘small man from a small country’ (Nepal’s total population can be compared to Haryana’s, but it three times bigger in area). That’s how Binod Chaudhary, the industrialist from Nepal who first met Narendra Modi at a convention in Ahmedabad in 2011, likes to describe himself. Modi was chief minister of Gujarat and Chaudhary had not yet been declared the first dollar billionaire from a country where many millions live in poverty. The chemistry between the two was powerful enough for the Gujarat CM to seek the industrialist’s help in reuniting the then 25-year-old Jeet Bahadur—who Modi had brought up and groomed since he was 11—with his family in Nepal.