India-US ties have rarely had superior prospects

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In spite of strategic convergences, relations between India and the US have not moved forward at the pace one would have expected. The two countries have been coming closer, no doubt, but there are still a few differences that have proven hard to resolve and held back ground-level engagement. It is these gaps that India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Joe Biden will try to narrow during the former’s state visit to America. Areas of business interest can serve as easily grabbed fruit to offset differences on the geopolitical front, where New Delhi’s refusal to align itself with...