US-India partnership: How language studies can promote better collaboration between two largest democracies

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Prime Minister Narendra Modi capped his June 2022 visit to the United States not only with a State Dinner but also with his second address before a Joint Session of Congress. Indians should be proud. Modi joins an elite club of foreign leaders—Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, and South African President Nelson Mandela—who have twice received the honour. Only British Prime Minister Winston Churchill has spoken before the entire Congress more. President Joe Biden was right when, standing beside the prime minister, he described the “thoroughly bipartisan support that exists all across the United States for...