All is well

At a time when the two erstwhile partners in Tata Teleservices - Japan's top telco NTT DoCoMo and India's Tata group - are embroiled in a court battle, the Indian government is clearly not losing sleep pondering if the soured business deal would impact relations between the two countries. The confidence in the government stems not from the long-standing business relations between India and Japan, including the recent pact for a $12-billion loan to build the country's first bullet train, but from the bond between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Japanese Premier Shinzo Abe. A source in the government quipped, "Have you not seen the body language between Modi and Abe? How can anything ever go wrong between India and Japan?"