Notwithstanding the looming economic crisis, rising unemployment and growing social unease over linguistic and cultural issues, the country on Tuesday broke into a rapturous applause (mostly in the virtual world) for Prime Minister Narendra Modi on his 69th birthday.

While the social media is full of birthday wishes to Prime Minister Narendra Modi with his fans and admirers flooding it with his praises and “achievements” as country’s PM in the last five years, one of his fans has gone to the extent of calling Modi “Father of Our Country”.