Hi, I'm Avantika Chulkoti, a foreign correspondent at The Economist.
I started out in journalism just over a decade ago in Mumbai.
There was one big story in India back then,
the landslide election of a new kind of leader, Narendra Modi.
Ten years on,
the big question in my mind and in the minds of anyone interested in India is still the same.
Who is Narendra Modi, really?
Travel around India and Modi's everywhere.
On billboards, on TV, at the cricket.
But he's also elusive.
The prime minister doesn't do press conferences.
As the leader of the world's biggest democracy,
Modi has proven to be a strong man with a dangerous streak of authoritarianism.
He rarely gives unscripted interviews.
So to tell a story, I've tried to find those closest to him.
Parat Barai is an Indian-American oncologist who hosted Modi on one of his first visits to America.
He calls Modi a friend.
After Modi was elected Prime Minister, Bharat Bharai helped organise a rally in America.
18,000 Modi supporters filled Madison Square Garden in New York.
And his speech, of course, was extraordinary as usual.