Decorated elephants, drumbeats, and classical dance performances – Indian culture was on full display as prime minister Narendra Modi rolled out a grand welcome for US vice president JD Vance, his wife Usha Vance, and their three children amid turbulent economic relations between the two countries.
For Usha Bala Chilukuri Vance, the first Hindu and first Indian-American second lady, the visit is a homecoming of a kind, causing a wave of excitement and flurry of media activity in her ancestral village in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.