Given the US-India relationship, last week's meeting between the US Ambassador to India and Modi shouldn't surprise us. What is fascinating is that groups that once hid their affection for Modi now feel emboldened to declare it.
What should we infer from the visit by three junior lawmakers of the USA? Particularly when one of them represents all the qualities that Modi is trying to distance himself from?
Indeed establishing relations and engaging in dialogue between Jews and Indians is crucial. But given global awareness and concern over anti-Semitism, shouldn't leaders like Advani distance themselves from ideologues like Gowalkar and Savarkar?
When Pakistan was created, its founder, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, famously declared, "You are free, free to go to your temples, you are free to go to your mosques or to any other places of worship in this state of Pakistan...