On October 15, Rediff.com's Washington Editor AZIZ HANIFFA broke this story on how US officials wanted President Obama to support India as a permanent member of the United Nations Security Council, telling him it could make his India visit truly historic. On November 8, President Obama told Parliament that the US supported India's membership of the UN Security Council.
'He views a partnership with India as one of the building blocks of our relationships in the 21st century,' says Randy Scheunemann, director of foreign policy for the John McCain campaign.
India is one of the most important partnerships the US has, says the man tipped to be the Democrat presidential candidate.
Terry McAuliffe, chairman of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign, speaks exclusively to Aziz Haniffa.
An interview by Indian Ambassador to the US Ronen Sen to rediff.com Managing Editor Aziz Haniffa in Washington on the Indo-US nuclear deal created an uproar in Parliament.
Daryl Kimball, executive director of the Washington, DC-based Arms Control Association believes India's expectation of a 'clean exemption' at the Nuclear Suppliers Group meeting scheduled for August 21 is "a fantasy".
'I've been a member of the family really. But I certainly am critical of a number of the ways that, in particular the President, has run his country.'
'That they don't have a say in the UN, like China, is hard for me to understand,' says US Congressman Joseph Crowley.
'Pakistan is only interested in Afghanistan insofar as it can give it more strategic weight vis-a-vis India,' says Afghan expert Sarah Chayes.
'The trajectory of the US-India relationship is very different from that of the US-Pakistan relationship and those trajectories neither meet nor criss-cross each other,' says Foreign Secretary Kanwal Sibal.
The first Indian-American US Congressman in 46 years, in an exclusive interview with rediff.com
'You need to have a really textured, rich, intimate, long-standing local knowledge of places like this before you start running around creating governments,' says Afghan expert Sarah Chayes.
To mark Prime Minister Modi's seventh meeting with Obama and his historic joint address to US Congress -- the sixth Indian PM to do so -- India Abroad, the newspaper published from New York and owned by rediff.com, reached out to diplomats and strategic thinkers in New Delhi and Washington, DC, to assess the current state of the US-India relationship and suggest a road map for the future.
'I would urge my Indian friends to look at how significant the overall support was.'
Judge Srikanth 'Sri' Srinivasan is the front-runner to replace the late Justice Anthony Scalia on the US Supreme Court.
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