Six degrees of separation is the idea that all people are six or fewer social connections away from each other. As a result, a chain of "friend of a friend" statements can be made to connect any two people in a maximum of six steps.
I guess Modiji is at most a third connection to most Indians. Someone you know or somone your friend/family knows must have seen him. In Trichy, an auto driver, a poor Brahmin who comes for Brahmanartham, a cab driver in Vazhavandhan Kottai know somone who had met/ seen him in close quarters or part of a small group that got to meet him. This was impossible until a decade ago.
This is possibile because, as a PM, Modi must have attended maximum number of events outside of Delhi. His aggressive campaigns and the organisational connect BJP/RSS has with the people makes him the most connected world leader.
It is good to see Annamalai using this approach in reaching out to the people. Again, the organisational support he gets to achive this is phenomenal.
But the connection doesn't stay just as a contact, but a slightly stronger connection is built due to the way the leaders interact with the people. Both the leaders don't meet people as a formality, but try to connect with them on a topic that's close to the other person. They listen to the common man or a Karyakarta and respond. The common man feels he's closer to the leader and that gets conveyed to his contacts.
Their public speeches give an impression that their communication is one way. But we do see that they have already connected with the audience.
Other aspiring leaders have a thing or two to learn from these two.
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