India
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the world's largest democracy, India, became the 52nd world leader to respond to my request. It appears Prime Minister Singh hand-autographed the photograph as well.
What I love about this correspondence is the autographed photograph showing the Prime Minister in his religious headgear. Here in the great melting pot of New York, we have many Sikhs who wear the same or similar headgear and I salute them and the Prime Minister for publicly holding steadfast in their beliefs irrespective of what others may think or do.