Relationship between India-US now can be ‘as ambitious as we choose to be’: India’s Deputy Ambassador

06 Mar 2024 Evaluate

Highlighting the journey of change between India and the US, especially the significant progress made in the last 20 years, India’s Deputy Ambassador to the US, Sripriya Ranganathan has said the relationship between the world's two largest democracies now can be ‘as ambitious as we choose to be’. She also appealed to Indian and Indian-origin students at Stanford University to stay connected with India.

Deputy Ambassador Ranganathan said ‘The broader India-US strategic partnership, I think, we have now reached a stage where we can say that the partnership has come into its own. We have achieved a lot over the past 70 years. But what we have achieved over the past 20 years has been at a different level altogether.’ She said ‘And I would say that now we are at a stage where we can be as ambitious as we choose to be. We can decide to set our goals, set our sights on targets that were unimaginable a few years ago, and we can’.

She said ‘Not only can we be ambitious, but we can also be confident that we can make these things work, we can bring to implementation ideas that would've seemed outlandish even 20 years ago’, as she cited the example of the India-US relationship in the field of space and the area of emerging and critical technologies, sectors in which scientists and policymakers from both the countries are actively engaged.

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