FIRST READING: Trudeau’s positively disastrous trip to India

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For the second time in his tenure, an official trip to India by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has become defined by a cascading series of gaffes, snubs and diplomatic embarrassments.

“Trudeau’s India Agony,” was how India’s Hindustan Times summed up the visit. The English-language NewsX cable channel, meanwhile, ran a nine-minute segment denouncing Trudeau as an ignorant hypocrite.

“Like any good Punjabi I have family in Canada, and I promise you that the nonsense that you’re talking is emanating from sheer hubris,” said anchor Rishabh Gulati. “What do we do with this man?”