India, Sept. 7 -- "Mr Trump has a fairly mercurial temperament" was Congress MP Shashi Tharoor's caveat on Sunday, when he was asked about the perceived thaw in India-US relations after President Donald Trump and PM Narendra Modi exchanged some mutual admiration via the press and social media.

"I don't think we can just completely forget either the 50 per cent tariffs or the insults that have accompanied it from both the President and his staff," Tharoor said, speaking to reporters in Thiruvananthapuram, his Lok Sabha constituency, in Kerala.

"I think there's some serious repair work that needs to be done by governments and diplomats on both sides. Mr Trump has a fairly mercurial temperament and what he has been saying has caused some h...