Does it augur well ahead of the President’s proposed visit to India?
I hope that his visit to India, when it happens, will augur well. I know he has enormous respect for India, people of India and I think you will see that when he comes. President Obama is increasingly being viewed as a man of words. His Cairo speech had set off hopes, but nothing seems to have happened since then. Let me assure you that he is a man of action. Obviously, this is a very complex and complicated time. First, the country is grappling with the economic recovery, a lot of his efforts were focused on that. But we began to take many steps and all of us in the government are focused on many promises that he made and the ideas that he gave in Cairo. So there are many programmes that we have begun to launch. Increasingly a North-South divide is emerging at various multilateral forums. Does that complicate your mission? I think policy issues are going to be complicated. That’s not going to go away. The more connections between people you have, the better you would be able to do tha
