Namaste Trump: Can PM Modi make US prez look past the trade differences?

This visit ought to be about making clear to Trump that the larger promise of India outweighs the irritants associated with trade disagreements

‘What the leaders of India want and are determined to have is a democracy that is indigenous to their own country – not English or American or French or Russian,’ wrote Eleanor Roosevelt. Diplomat, activist, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s wife, according to Mrs. Roosevelt, who travelled across India in the spring of 1952, ‘the democracy India is building probably will never be exactly like ours.’ After all, she continued, ‘there is no reason it should be.’

Few American leaders understood this at the time. President Harry S. Truman had in fact dissuaded American envoys from accepting