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Similarly, Obama would also go to a school where he will
be able to speak to even younger group of Indians. "Because he
always wants to take advantage of the opportunity to speak to
young people," Rhodes said.
One of the things that he directed his White House staff
in terms of the speech writing team is also to underscore how
much the US welcomes India's rise, how much America sees it as
a good thing for the United States, a good thing for the
world, Rhodes said.
He said Obama's trip would also be reflective of
the inspiration he seeks from Mahatma Gandhi, the apostle of
peace and non-violence.
Besides laying a wreath at the Raj Ghat in New Delhi,
Obama would be visiting the Gandhi Museum in Mumbai, he
said.
"In the President's Noble Peace Prize address, he
invokes Gandhi and (Martin Luther) King more than once in that
speech and the power of non-violent protest to the social
justice.
"There is direct line to what Gandhi did, how King was
informed about what Gandhi did and to the role King played in
the civil rights movement here to the inspiration that
provided to the President. So he has some kind of a personal
tie to the extraordinary history of India in the 20th
century," Rhodes said. PTI