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29 January 2015, ABC

US-India relations improve with second visit by US president

Sameer Patil, Associate Fellow, National Security, Ethnic Conflict and Terrorism, Gateway House has given an interview on U.S. President Obama being the Chief Guest at India's Republic Day parade. This interview was published by ABC

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BRENDAN TREMBATH: The US president Barack Obama begins his second visit to India on Sunday, hosted a leader who was a Washington outcast only a year ago.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi was shunned over his alleged involvement in anti-Muslim riots in the western state of Gujurat.

But now the White House says the relationship has extraordinary potential, and that both leaders want it to be in a fundamentally different place than when they took office.

South Asia correspondent Stephanie March reports from New Delhi.

STEPHANIE MARCH: The Indian media are calling it a meeting between the world’s most powerful and the world’s most popular leader.

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