America’s president will be in Ahmedabad, Agra and Delhi on Monday and Tuesday.

He is not particularly keen to travel, and this appears to be common to most Americans. At the age of 16, I spent a year in an American village. One afternoon, there was a desk in the school that offered an exchange programme under which Americans could travel for a period abroad just as I had. If I remember it right, nobody signed up.



Donald Trump since becoming president has visited 20 countries of which the majority are in Europe. He has been to France four times. He dislikes the developing world.

He has been to Afghanistan but only to an American military base there. India will be the first poor nation that he would have visited as President and probably the first poor nation he will ever see. It will be interesting to see what his observations are, especially because he is not shy to say impolite things.