India’s new ambassador to the US faces a tough challenge

One of the most uninspiring tenures in the entire history of the Indian Foreign Service mercifully ended on Sunday with Meera Shankar demitting office as India’s ambassador to the United States of America. It now falls upon Nirupama Rao, her successor, to sweep up the broken pieces left by Shankar’s painfully extended tenure in Washington and try to restore at least some of the camaraderie in Indo-US relations that melted away almost on a weekly basis from the day the outgoing ambassador presented her credentials to President Barack Obama on May 20, 2009.

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