With history of developing working relationships with China and KSA while having unseated democratically elected governments in Iran, Brazil and beyond, the US would be well placed to circumvent discourse on democratic norms with India. Plenty of other areas to focus on.
https://twitter.com/foreignpolicy/status/1357826402838544386
Indian democracy is unique, and will always be so. An effort to superimposes a Western matrix of supposedly “liberal” democratic norms on a civilizational state that is emerging from the darkness of institutional as well as intellectual colonization, will see a natural pushback.
While our factors of production - land, labour, capital, entrepreneurship and technology - share some commonalities, our approach to pluralism diverge. India’s pluralism is rooted in its philosophies, similar to that of the indigenous Americans. It’s not enforced by constitution.
American democracy is in a precarious position. Voter turnout is lower compared to India’s, which has steadily grown over the decades. Increasing inequality is converging with racial prejudices in the US while in India, affirmative action schemes lift millions out of poverty. 
India’s Gini coefficient at 36 must be looked at in context of hundreds of millions being lifted out of poverty. The US is at 48 - so more unequal - with broadly stagnant poverty reduction. It indicates that India’s democracy enables greater equality on its rising income path.
There are plenty of statistics that can be used in debate. But the most overwhelming difference in our democracies is the respect for international human rights. I imagine that no Indian government would wish to follow in these footsteps:
https://twitter.com/suryakane/status/1348764703082876928?s=21
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