Bonhomie at Biarritz: Modi charms Trump but can he keep him on India's side

India hopes the goodwill created in France survives when PM Narendra Modi travels to the US in September.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be in the United States at the end of September, for a bilateral visit as also to address the UN General Assembly and then to address non-resident Indians at a much-publicised event in Houston.

Modi’s meeting with US President Donald Trump on Monday on the sidelines of the just-concluded G7 Summit held in the French coastal town of Biarritz is a good precursor to his September-end visit to the US. The two leaders not only seemed to share much bonhomie, but Trump agreed with Modi that Jammu and Kashmir was a bilateral issue between India and