Narendra Modi’s rock-star welcome to Sydney is part concert, part political rally and all about soft power

More than 20,000 people throng stadium for event that plays to confidence of India’s diaspora

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It was a rock-star welcome that would have made any of the world’s biggest stars blush.

But not Narendra Modi.

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