Reinforcing Cultural & Strategic Ties : PM Narendra Modi on US Trip
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on a multi-day trip to the United States, during which he has been playing up the shared cultural legacy between India and America but also honing in on technology and strategic partnerships. Modi had addressed a large Indian-American audience on Long Island during his visit, met tech leaders and engaged in bilateral and diplomatic meetings with President Joe Biden and global leaders as well.
Modi at Long Island: Commemorating Cultural Bonds
Modi on Sunday addressed thousands of overseas Indians at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale Long Island. Organized by the Indo American Community of USA, the event was a celebration of India and US culture. Modi hailed that the Indian diaspora has served as a bridge between the two countries and made a huge contribution to strengthening their bond without specifying one, saying– let us stick to our discipline.
Modi also told audience an interesting thing about India’s two gold medals at the Chess Olympiad in Budapest, Hungary, and this met with a lot of applause.
American returns stolen Indian treasures
On his trip, PM Modi also announced the repatriation of 297 stolen or illegally trafficked ancient artefacts to India. It is part of a broader effort on the side of the United States, that has returned almost 600 cultural relics to India since 2016. The cultures represented in the artifacts date back to thousands of years and they are valuable for India because it is a source of one’s own history, heritage, and identity.
Findings show that there is a significant tech and innovation focus to the startup sector that Modi has continued building.
Remarked Prime Minister Modi in a roundtable with some of the highest-ranking tech industry heads in New York — Google CEO Sundar Pichai, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen, and IBM CEO Arvind Krishna, to name just a few. The discussion revolved around the advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI), quantum computing, biotechnology, and semiconductor manufacturing. Modi sought to assure U.S. companies that the world’s seventh-largest economy by GDP expansion was open for business and urged them to take advantage of its scale, as well as its resources, human capital and technology skills, while listing some of his administration’s flagship businesses programs.
India has come up with its own artificial intelligence (AI) policy as well, and Prime Minister Modi pitched the BIO E3 policy targeting to turn India into a biotech powerhouse.
Strengthening India-U. S. Strategic Partnership
Among his diplomatic outings, Modi participated in a summit of the Quad alliance with President Joe Biden and the Prime Ministers of Australia and Japan. The chats further reiterated the resolve of India and the USA to consolidate Comprehensive Global Strategic Partnership, especially in areas of cooperation on new technologies.
Modi said he was hopeful about the future of U.S.-India relations and added that technology collaboration is at the heart of India’s partnership with the United States.
Security and Protests During Modi’s Visit
While the fans inside the Nassau Coliseum welcomed Modi with great enthusiasm, his visit has drawn protest too. Critics have been concerned about his domestic policies, especially when it comes to the treatment of Indian Muslims. A “free speech zone” was also established at the location where protesters could demonstrate.
Connection of Modi with the Indian diaspora-
Prime Minister Modi has had a large community… During the Long Island event, he pointed out that Indians living in any corner of the world love their motherland even from a distance of thousands of kilometers. Modi also lauded the diaspora for making Indian culture a global brand, noting even small things like Indian way of greeting ‘namaste’ has travelled from local to global with the help of Indians living abroad.
In The End — A Successful U.S. Tour
NEW YORK Connecticut Prime Minister Narendra Modi ended his visit to the United States exactly as he intended: on a tiny stage in Central Park, attempting to entertain tens of thousands of people with song. When you look back, from celebrating the heritage and diaspora of India to forging stronger technology partnerships during his visit, Modi’s trip is one more significant chapter in the ever-evolving collaboration between the two countries.