Last week, sitting in the stands of Wembley Stadium, I was fortunate enough to see Prime Minister Narendra Modi greeted by the cheers of more than 55,000 British-Indian voices.
The crowd was the largest the Indian Prime Minister has attracted outside of his home country.
That the head of the world's largest democracy received such a warm welcome in Britain should, of course, hardly come as a surprise. The UK, after all, is home to the second largest Indian population outside of Asia (beaten to the top spot only by the USA).
Not only is our Indian community a large one but it is also thriving. Since 2010, the numbers of British Indian students studying the core academic subjects at GCSE has increased by over 70 per cent.
The bond that these 1.5 million British-Indians - and the central role they play in our society - create with the world's second most populous nation is immensely strong. Indeed, few cultures in the world have embraced each other's traditions as Britain and India have done. What, after all, could be more British than a Chicken Tikka, or more Indian than a game of cricket?
In our politics too, Britain and India have a special relationship to be proud of, both in our shared love of democracy and in 2015 General Election that saw more British-Indian MPs elected to Westminster than ever before. As our own Prime Minister told the Wembley crowd in his exceptionally warm welcome to Mr Modi: "it won't be long before there is a British Indian Prime Minister in Downing Street".
Perhaps the opportunity that Prime Minister Modi's visit embodies most vividly, however, is the importance of India's economic relationship with the UK.
In India, 1 in every 20 private sector jobs is created by a British Company. The UK, meanwhile, attracts more investment from Indian companies than the rest of the EU put together.
Given that India is predicted to be the world's fastest growing major economy in 2016 (outstripping even China) as well as its most populous country by 2028, the relationship between our countries will be of huge importance to the future of Britain's prosperity.
Already, Indian owned companies like Jaguar-Land Rover and Tetley employ thousands of workers in the UK and if David Cameron can fulfil his desire to create a trading relationship between our countries that matches investment, those jobs will only multiply.
Britain, of course, has much it can offer India in turn: whether in working to secure the permanent seat on the UN Security Council to which a country of India's stature is surely entitled, or in providing the expertise to create the digital economy and up-skilled workforce to which Mr Modi aspires.
One in six human beings is a citizen of India, a country with which we are fortunate enough to share a long history. If Mr Modi's reception is anything to go by, our country's special relationship promises to be just as bright.
