K for Kuniyil, K for Kailashnathan: The KK who will play the key role in Narendra Modi’s PMO, if…

NOVEMBER, 2010. Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi was on a two-day visit to Kerala. He first landed up at Kochi, and then visited Thrissur in a helicopter to attend a function. Mind it. It was not a political rally, but the marriage ceremony of daughter of one of his most trusted bureaucrats, Kuniyil Kailashnathan, or KK, as he is known to his friends and colleagues. And if Modi becomes India’s next prime minister, something that will be known only on May 16, it’s KK…