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From great friend to Tariff King , the changing shades of the USA – India relationship.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent visit to the US marked another chapter in the long complex journey of India – US relations . It was a celebration of friendship, shared values and mutual aspirations .

India, the most populous democracy, and US, the most powerful democracy need real "MAITRI" (friendship) for the sake of world peace.
The relationship between the two nations goes back decades of the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy's presidencies . Ties were warm and full of promise. President Kennedy famously remarked “the hinge of fate in Asia rests with India.”

When President Eisenhower visited India in 1959 to inaugurate the first US Embassy, he expressed a vision that still resonates today : if American and Indian children grew up as best friends, the world would be a safer and better place.

But the warmth did not last uninterrupted. In 1965, relations shifted sharply, reaching one of their lowest points during President Nixon's tenure.

As recently as December 2024, Prime Minister, Modi said “the US and India have overcome the hesitations of history” . The challenge today is to sustain that momentum in this rapidly changing and often turbulent world.

The wisdom of history reminds us what is truly at stake. As historian Dr. Arnold Toynbee once wrote “it is already becoming clear that a chapter which has western beginning will have to have an Indian ending, if it is not to end in self-destruction of the human race....

At this supremely dangerous moment in the human history, the only salvation for the mankind is the Indian way- Emperor Ashoka's and Mahatma Gandhi's principle of nonviolence and Sri Ramakrishna's testimony to the harmony of religions. Here we have an attitude and spirit that can make it possible for the human race to grow together into a single family and in the atomic age, this is the only alternative to destroying ourselves."

Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Connected

V.K. Raju, MD, FRCS, FACS

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