India, May 6 -- .Prime Minister Narendra Modi has adopted three different approaches towards three of India's most important relationships in the past three months.

First, India is on a path of deeper alignment with the United States (US). Donald Trump's election meant there would not just be a new American administration but a new America itself. India had to decide if it wanted to pursue the course of deeper strategic alignment that it had embarked on with Washington DC exactly two decades ago when the nuclear deal was initiated. But this time, India would have to give rather than take. And this would entail intangibles such as constantly feeding Trump's ego while absorbing insults, tangibles such as economic benefits to American compa...