Modi’s Australia Visit : Major Takeaways By Deepak Parvatiyar November 21, 2014 ‘Rock star’ Narendra Modi is fast acquiring words in his lexicon. Consider the ‘shirt-fronting’ remark with a hint of a wink at the start of his historic address to the joint session of the Australian parliament on the very last day of his visit to the Kangaroo nation! He had picked up typical Australian football slang with aplomb. The use of the same phrase by his Australian counterpart Tony Abbott, with whom he now shares a very warm personal equation, had left Russian President Vladimir Putin fuming. But Modi’s use of the same phrase made a telling impact on the Australian parliamentarians as they clapped to applaud Modi. You may also like to read Biography of Narendra Modi During his Australia visit, Modi often departed from his trademark Hindi oratory to mesmerise the world with his English. As he spoke in English for almost 25 minutes at the Australian Parliament, even
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