U.S. Media Takes Note Of PM Modi's 'Rock-Star' Reception

It said it was the highest-profile public appearance in the West for a leader whose reform-minded charisma has drawn comparisons to a 2008-era Barack Obama.

Quite a number of American media organisations had sent in their reporters to cover the Madison Square Garden event.

The New York Times said: "Mr Modi addressed a wildly enthusiastic audience that was largely made up of Indian Americans."

" Modi is here to sell a New India, with himself as the man who can be trusted to deliver the promise. But it remains to be see whether he is willing or able to bridge India's wide differences with the U.S. on tax policies, climate change, outsourcing, intellectual property rights and other issues," the daily said.

Modi's address at the Madison Square Garden was given primetime coverage by several news channels, which also showed the protest against the Prime Minister in New York.

The Washington Post carried a report by a news agency, so did several other newspapers.

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