For Times of India

The forthcoming State visit of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh presents an opportunity for the Prime Minister to take the leadership on issues where the United States and India have common interests but also differences in approaches. Professor Jagdish Bhagwati, whose writings in the mid-1960s --with Professor Padma Desai, he wrote the celebrated book, India: Planning for Industrialization which laid out the entire agenda of reforms which would be adopted twenty years later --were instrumental in India’s emergence from stagnation into its current status as a major economic powerhouse, and who has played a leading role in promoting India-US relations in the US through public advocacy in the leading print and TV media and through frequent testimonies since 1994 in the US House and Senate, suggests here what the Prime Minister ought to say.