Congress leader Shashi Tharoor has reacted to a top US official's comment that India has been "a bit recalcitrant" in trade talks. "I hear some people are accusing India of being 'recalcitrant'. I say...far better to be recalcitrant, than to be tractable, submissive or acquiescent to injustice," he wrote on X. US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent earlier called India "recalcitrant".