Jammu, June 19 -- New Delhi has taken note of U.S. actions hurting India in recent days

By Ashok Nilakantan Ayers

NEW YORK: For nearly a decade, the choreography was familiar. There would be an embrace. The broad smiles. The carefully staged bonhomie. The public declarations of friendship. Cameras would capture the optics before diplomats discussed the substance.

Yet at this year's G7 summit on June 16 and 17 in France, something appeared different. When Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived among the leaders of the world's most powerful democracies, the visual language of the gathering had changed. The world itself had changed. The easy symbolism of personal chemistry was suddenly competing with the hard arithmetic of war, energy, trad...