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    Photos of the day - May 16, 2014

    Hiraben, the 90-year-old mother of opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader and India's next prime minister Narendra Modi, flashes the victory symbol as she celebrates with her son after preliminary results showed the BJP winning by a landslide, in Gandhinagar, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, Friday, May 16, 2014. The 63-year-old Modi is widely seen as the darling of India's corporate world and a decisive, 21st-century administrator expected to revive job creation and economic growth. Modi's singular message on the economy has helped him ignore or beat back criticism of his personal life, including his strong links to a right-wing Hindu nationalist group, as well as his four-decade marriage to a retired school teacher he had never mentioned publicly until last month. (AP Photo/Saurabh Das)

    Photographer Saurabh Das


    Saurabh Das was born in Durgapur, West Bengal, India, and got his Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Calcutta. He is currently based in New Delhi, India. He began his photojournalism career in New Delhi, first for the daily Asian Age, then for the AP.

    Das then spent four years in Nigeria, working as a photographer for the AP in West Africa, before returning to New Delhi in 2005, where he is currently based. He has worked in Asia, Africa and the Middle East covering elections, wars, conflicts, volcanic eruptions, floods, earthquakes, plane and train crashes and heads of state and other important public figures, as well as the story of the common man. (AP)

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