This time, it went beyond the customary embraces. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump actually walked hand-in-hand around the NRG stadium in Houston, as thousands of Indian Americans cheered. They even pumped up their clasped fists above their heads, just in case the cameras missed their show of camaraderie.
In the days that followed, Trump kept up the show by saying that his chemistry with Modi was as good as it could get and that he “really liked’’ Modi. He lavished compliments and epithets on the Indian prime minister and even called him “father of India”. Trump, who made the US walk away from the Paris climate change accord, actually attended Modi’s talk at the UN climate change meet. When Modi went to the US in 2014, he was a curiosity. A man who had been denied US visa in the past, but was now coming with the privileges of a head of government. He was a fresher to national politics, let alone international diplomacy. Modi 2.0, however, has chosen American soil and the United Nations stage to showcase not just his evolution as a global leader, but also to tell the world about India’s role in shaping the global agenda.
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