Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is on his first state visit to the United States. President Joe Biden extended the invitation, which includes a lavish dinner for Modi. India is a strategic partner for the US when it comes to countering China’s influence in the Indo-Pacific and has the potential to chip away at China’s tech-manufacturing prowess. But Delhi has also remained firmly neutral in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and human rights experts have raised alarm at India’s democratic backslide under Modi. Sushmita Pathak in Delhi, has more on this complex, evolving relationship between the two democracies.