President Barack Obama joins PM Modi in Delhi’s Republic Day parade
Snapshots from Indian-American history
this month, that year
January 26, 2015
– President Barack Obama joins
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in Delhi’s Republic
Day parade.
His participation is seen as a gesture of cooperation between the United States and India. Traditionally, India invites a chief of state from another nation as a guest of honor at the parade. Obama was the first U.S. head of state to attend the parade.
Sindya N. Bhanoo writes the Observatory column in the Science section of The New York Times. She is also a board member of South Asian American Digital Archive (SAADA). This column’s material is from SAADA. https://www.saada.org/.
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