India is acutely aware that trade and immigration issues are a potential double whammy. But it believes it can preserve growing ties.

Scenes of shackled detainees shuffling onto a U.S military aircraft triggered outrage in India, days before Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s White House visit.

Narendra Modi’s visit to the White House this week feels suspiciously like a victory lap for an Indian leader whose economy hasn’t had a great deal to celebrate of late.