PM Modi heads to Davos with a message for the world: India's time has come

Modi would look to bring home the significance of India's rise as a global economic power for the assembled world community

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will leave for the Swiss town of Davos on Monday to attend the World Economic Forum's (WEF's) 48th annual meeting. As the world's business and political leaders descend on the town located in the Swiss Alps, Modi will be looking to take the "stage", as the Wall Street Journal put it, to secure a more prominent role for India at the big table, where the major powers "shape the world's rules and regulations". 

A day before he was scheduled to leave for Davos, Modi, who is set to deliver the opening plenary address at the WEF