Shadow Warrior Mr Modi goes to Washington, déjà vu all over again

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Considering that India and the US are my two favourite countries, it is odd that I get nervous whenever there is a summit between the two. I am reminded inevitably of the Frank Capra film Mr Smith goes to Washington, where James Stewart, a naive idealist, goes to the corrupt company town Washington DC and is bullied and humiliated. In the end (this being fiction) Mr Smith wins a famous victory for the ideas of democracy and the power of the people. In real life, things are different. Mr Modi is not naive, and he is a pragmatist (though there...