India wasn’t an American priority and a meeting might have disappointed Indians fed on propaganda about this country being the “Vishwa Guru”, or Global Teacher.

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It’s just as well that, resisting the temptation to hobnob with the great and the good, Prime Minister Narendra Modi skipped the chance of an encounter with US President Donald Trump at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Kuala Lumpur recently. India wasn’t an American priority and a meeting might have disappointed Indians fed on propaganda about this country being the “Vishwa Guru”, or Global Teacher.

Indeed, disagreement seemed inevitable after the Congress general secretary in charge of communications, Jairam Ramesh, announced that Mr Trump had aired his clai

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