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Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων arkhitekton "architect",

from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "creator") is both the process and the product of planning, designing,


and constructing buildings or other structures.[3] Architectural works, in the material form of buildings,
are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often
identified with their surviving architectural achievements.[

Narendra Damodardas Modi (Gujarati pronunciation: [ˈnəɾendrə dɑmodəɾˈdɑs ˈmodiː] ( listen); born 17


September 1950) is an Indian politician serving as the 14th and current Prime Minister of India since
2014. He was the Chief Minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of
Parliament for Varanasi. Modi is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a Hindu nationalist volunteer organisation. He is the first prime minister
outside of the Indian National Congress to win two consecutive terms with a full majority and the
second to complete five years in office after Atal BiBorn to a Gujarati family in Vadnagar, Modi
helped his father sell tea as a child and has said he later ran his own stall. He was introduced to the
RSS at the age of eight, beginning a long association with the organisation. Modi left home after
finishing high-school in part due to an arranged marriage to Jashodaben Chimanlal Modi, which he
abandoned and publicly acknowledged only many decades later. Modi travelled around India for two
years and visited a number of religious centres before returning to Gujarat. In 1971 he became a full-
time worker for the RSS. During the state of emergency imposed across the country in 1975, Modi
was forced to go into hiding. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he held several
positions within the party hierarchy until 2001, rising to the rank of general secretary.hari Vajpayee.

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