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.