Terrorism, trade and Trump's India policy

DHUME SAID THAT MODI NEEDS TO BE SEEN AS STRONG IN THE AFTERMATH OF THE PAHALGAM TERROR ATTACKS THAT CLAIMED THE LIVES OF 26 PEOPLE

- HT Correspondent

NEW DELHI: Between the April 22 terrorist attack in Pahalgam in Jammu and Kashmir which killed 26 people, US Vice President JD Vance's recent whirlwind trip to India, and US President Trump's tariff threats, it's been an unusually busy few months in the world of US-India relations.

On a recent episode of Grand Tamasha, a weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy co-produced by HT and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, two veteran India watchers —Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute and the Wall Street Journal and Tanvi Madan of the Brookings Institution — joined host Milan Vaishnav to discuss the latest developments on the bilateral front. They also reviewed the first 100 days of the Trump administration and discussed what, if anything, has surprised them about the early months of Trump 2.0.