Aakar Patel | How Jaishankar put on mat in US over Hindutva and other issues
Published : Jun 2, 2021, 7:20 am IST
Updated : Jun 2, 2021, 7:20 am IST
India under Narendra Modi has spent a lot of energy in drafting laws that go after minorities
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken meets with Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar at the State Department in Washington, on May 28, 2021. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)
India’s external affairs minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar was till Saturday on a visit to the United States. The first half of his trip was apparently not very productive as the person he had come to meet, US secretary of state Antony J. Blinken, had to go to the Middle East on an urgent visit. Mr Jaishankar met him only several days after reaching the US. In the meantime, the minister met the Indian teams at the United Nations and had sundry other meetings. He also had an interview with former President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Lt