Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Xi Jinping have just made back to back visits to the United States. In keeping with the times both began their tours from that Mecca of our age —Silicon Valley. Thereafter their paths diverged because Xi was on his first state visit to Washington DC, whereas Modi, on the annual pilgrimage the Indian PM makes on the occasion of the UN General Assembly, had a brief meeting with Obama in New York City.

PM Narendra Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping both are visiting the US at a time when they have important political preoccupations back home. FIle pic/AFP