Is MAGA great for India?
Ahead of an Oval Office confab, we explore the next chapter of the Trump-Modi bromance
When Narendra Modi walks into the White House this week, he will do so as the prime minister of the world’s fifth-largest economy. By the end of President Donald Trump’s second term, it may be the third. America is betting on India’s inexorable rise. In Mr Trump’s first term, “Howdy Modi” and “Namaste Trump” mass rallies headlined by the two men became a visual shorthand for a relationship which many in India hope will deepen.
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