The message has quietly and firmly been conveyed to the US with some of the American Senators raising their voice ahead of Modi's visit next week.
In recent communications with the Obama Administration and also with lawmakers, senior Indian officials have acknowledged that like any society, everything is not perfect in India and there are issues of social justice and human rights within the country.
Indian officials, were quick to point out some of the recent developments inside the US itself.
"All societies have problems," officials said, adding that India is willing to have discussion with the US "on the basis of equality and partnership" but is not willing to accept any kind of 'judgemental pronouncement' in this regard from the US.
At a Congressional hearing last month, a senior Obama Administration official had told Senators that India itself has a vibrant civil society who are themselves fighting for these causes.
"India is also an extraordinarily transparent democracy in that the issues that we raise are not only issues that we are raising, but they are grappling with these issues in the context of their own democracy and debate," Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia Nisha Desai Biswal had said in response to a question during a hearing on India organised by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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