On 27th May 2014, exactly 50 years after the death of India’s first Prime Minster Jawaharlal Nehru, Narendra Modi formally took charge as the 14th Prime Minster of India. It was, in many ways, an absolute moment of rupture in the history of Indian politics. It was perhaps, in Nehru’s most memorable words, one of those moments which come “rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends…” The moment Nehru was referring to was much greater—India’s independence; but if we go by at least what one British newspaper editorial had to say, Modi’s election was not a lesser moment. The Guardian's editorial of May 18, 2014, interestingly titled “India: another tryst with destiny”, stated that the day of Modi’s election victory “may well go down in history as the day when Britain finally left India.”