Washington, Sep 23 (TIWN): When US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi sit down for their first-ever personal meeting, and bilateral, at the White House on Friday, the meeting will be historic in true meaning of the word "historic". This is Year Zero of the Post-Covid Era, and a new world order is in throes of taking birth.

It is but obvious that aides of both leaders would have drawn up a very tight-knit agenda for the discussion, and the topics to be covered in the 50 or so minutes at their disposal. These topics of discussion can be organized in a 5-cornered pentagon, as below:  (1) What each wants to extract from the other, and persuades the other as a mutual win-win.  (2) What compromise each wants from the other, in recognition of the special needs it has.  (3) Some exchange of favours on some issues - with rain-check to be cashed in future.  (4) To resolve, papering over of irritants, contentious issues in bilateral US-India relations.  (5) To identify areas of cooperation for regional and global affairs, for mutual win-win.  Having organised the above pentagon framework of the Biden-Modi meeting, we can now proceed to drill down and analyse the specifics of each of the five corners.