'By the time he came out after nearly five hours, he had a one-to-one conversation with the President, a delegation-level meeting, a reception, a dinner, a tour of the White House and a joint statement of a kind none of his predecessors ever had,' says Ambassador T P Sreenivasan.
India has made a remarkable journey from a top-down system of economic decision-making to one that unleashed our entrepreneurial spirits but the next big jump lies in enhancing the quality of our tale.
Besides a great idea, it takes pluck, and some luck, to get going.
Desis in the US recall their earliest celebration of the festival of lights on American soil. Chaya Babu reports
Trade between India and Indonesia stands at $20 billion.