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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
By Aamer Madhani and Krutika Pathi

Biden-Modi relationship built around mutual admiration of scrappy pasts, pragmatic needs

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No one would mistake them for best of friends.

But U.S. President Joe Biden, the son of blue-collar Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who rose from tea seller's son to premier, have developed a relationship based on mutual respect of their scrappy backgrounds and a pragmatism about the shared challenges their two countries face.

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