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After meeting President Obama and structuring a new alignment, Modi spelled out that India and the US will henceforth embark upon a deepened security cooperation. He said there were no ‘good’ and ‘bad’ terrorists and one must delink religion from terrorism.Terrorism must be delegitimised, he said. On continuing criticism of India’s Intellectual Property Rights, Modi, said, SIRI (the iPhone app) tells us that India’s ancient heritage of Yoga has over 30 million practitioners in the US. It is estimated that more Americans bend for yoga than to throw a curve ball. Even then India has not yet claimed intellectual property right on Yoga. Engagement between the two democracies was visible in the manner in which Thoreau`s idea of civil disobedience influenced India`s political thoughts. And, similarly the call by the great sage of India Swami Vivekananda to embrace humanity was most famously delivered in Chicago. Gandhi`s non-violence inspired the heroism of Martin Luther King. No wonder then that former Prime Minister of India Atal Bihari Vajpayee called India and the US `natural allies’. In the fall of 2008, when the US Congress passed the India-US Civil Nuclear Cooperation Agreement, it changed the very colours of leaves of the bilateral relationship.
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