Paris AI action summit to Bharat Innovates: Reading India’s digital diplomacy in France

If you landed at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris last week, then India would have been hard to miss. The arrival boards advertise the VivaTech and Eurosatory events in Paris; the screens by the baggage carousels flash the Bharat Innovates event in Nice. Prime Minister Narendra Modi headlined two of them as the marquee guest, on top of his G7 appearance at Evian, making India’s presence in France significantly visible. Diplomatic visits are easy to over-read. So the useful question about Modi’s France leg is whether the tour’s structure revealed a real reordering of India’s most important European relationship….