India links: Modi's US visit, Chief Ministers, Chumar incursion, Mars orbit and more

26 September 2014 08:13

Prime Minister Modi travels to the US next week on a five-day official visit. Neil Joeck asks whether Obama can patch things up with Modi, and Raja Mohan argues that the visit will be critical in defining India's great-power relations.
Ram Guha looks at India's most successful Chief Ministers in the last decade.
To follow on from last week's links, Basharat Peer reports his own experiences of the floods in Kashmir.
Milan Vaishnav and Suyash Rai ask what kind of reformer Modi will be.
Ashok Malik argues that the Chumar border incursion hijacked the India-China relationship.
Why India must do more to understand the complexities of homelessness.
For some light relief, this blogger is embarking on 50 first dates in Delhi.
How can Modi convince more US companies to manufacture in India?
India put a satellite into Mars orbit this week for less than it cost to make the movie Gravity. The mission also brought some pretty creative digital diplomacy to twitter (H/T @DeepPal1980).

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