Taking an auto in Delhi right after the rains, right after the giant saffron sweep, this exhilaration on the roads, this gushing on the faces of auto and taxi drivers — this moment is tough to capture in words or images.

This day will go down in the history of histories. An image and imagery so vast and vivid. A bulbous democracy on the brink of something so big and potent you feel it thrumming on the streets of the Capital.

On any given day this power and beauty with which the Indian voter has spoken would’ve angered me. But not today. Today the sheer magnanimity of the numbers is overwhelming. The smiles and happinesses. The sheer thumping force of will.