Given Goa's strong cultural and historic connection with Portugal, Modi's visit, the first leg of his three-nation tour that will also take him to the USA and the Netherlands, is significant.
On Sunday, PM Modi met with the heads of 20 of the leading United States technology firms, including Tim Cook of Apple, Sunder Pichai of Google, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon.
While Modi is expected to lobby for USA visas for technology workers from India, "anti-worker" Modi's Government has been criticized for generating fewer jobs, cracking down on labor rights and exclusively focusing on foreign investments in its three years in office.
He said American companies had a "great opportunity" to contribute to India's growth, a "win-win partnership for both countries".
The CEOs were quite impressed and praised the PM for the initiatives he has taken so far in his reign, including "Make in India", "Digital India", "Start Up India", as well as the demonetization and digitization of the economy.
"If America becomes stronger, India will be a natural beneficiary", he said.
India is seen as a glowing and attractive FDI destination.
"Infrastructure growth and terrorism are the main matters to focus on and I want that Russian Federation should also support us on this", he added.
"Both India and the US have an overriding interest in securing our societies, and the world, from the forces of terrorism, radical ideologies and nontraditional security threats. But he can help Trump to think of India as an opportunity rather than as a problem", said Tellis, senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
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Among the examples of invest opportunities he gave was one in tourism through the development of hotels in Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model at 500 railway stations.
Mr Modi's invitation-only Virginia event at the Ritz Carlton was very different from his 2014 Madison Square Garden event, when he addressed 19,000 cheering members of the Indian diaspora.
Trump's protectionist instincts, however, are at odds with India's efforts to boost exports and encourage Western manufacturers to "Make In India" - a flagship Modi scheme.
But a senior Indian government official said Modi is prepared to dive into this complicated discussion by highlighting the value Indian Americans have contributed to the USA economy, including an estimated 64,000 jobs.
Analysts said Monday's meeting at the White House would give Modi the chance to size up a USA leader whose focus has so far been on ties with India's regional rival China.
The meeting is grabbing the attention of nations across the world as PM Modi is the first foreign leader to be invited by the Trump administration for a "working dinner" at the White House.
Sunny Ghai, president MGMT Service Inc., said, "Both Prime Minister Modi and President Donald Trump need to talk about dual taxation to ease our situation, so that we can invest in India and don't have to end up paying taxes on both sides".
The two heads of state are likely to build on growing ties and move beyond disagreements over climate change. This, however, is in contrast to Modi's first USA visit in 2014, when he received a rousing welcome at the Madison Square Garden arena in NY and addressed the UN. New Delhi was irked by Trump's decision to pull out of the Paris accord, and his claim that India had made its participation contingent on receiving billions in foreign aid. But Washington and New Delhi share concerns about China's rise as a military power that has underpinned increasingly close relations in the past decade.
He set the U.S. on a path to withdraw from the Paris climate agreement and accused India of negotiating unscrupulously for the accord to walk away with billions of dollars in aid.
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