President Bush is about to visit India. In a Pew survey last year Indians had a much more favorable view of the US then did the British, Canadians and other traditional allies. Commerce, especially technology related, between the two countries has flourished in the last decade. India's growing economy has huge potential for US companies. Thanks go to the current Indian prime minister, Manmohan Singh who started India's liberalization policies while he was Finance minister.
Singh's daughter is an ACLU attorney and one of Bush's harshest critics, as this WSJ article reports. Expect to see a bunch of protests on the streets of India too while the Prez is there. Expect heated arguments about nuclear policies.
But this is one of the ironies of democracy. The world's richest democracy and its most populous are boisterous - but also mature enough to realize what Churchill once said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time"
