When Joe Biden chose Kamala Harris to be his vice president of the United States, Indians across the globe were over the moon. Today, on the first official state visit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on the invite of President Joe Biden, a similar fervour was witnessed at the John F Kennedy Airport in New York where hundreds of Indian-Americans waited with garlands to give a grand welcome to the Indian prime minister. Slogans of “Modi Modi” and India-US friendship were everywhere.