New Delhi completely misread American politics According to media reports, the US President Joe Biden has picked as many as 20 Indian-Americans for senior positions in his government, and the common thread running through them is that none of them had anything to do with the RSS or the BJP even remotely. What a curious yardstick to apply — avoid like plague India’s high-flying cultural organisation which runs the country and the ruling party that runs the government! This does not come as surprise to anyone who was watching with horror the complete misreading of American politics by India’s foreign-policy establishment, whose incredible naïveté in assuming that Donald Trump was destined to get re-elected as US president is becoming difficult to cover up anymore.