On Delhi's Blue Line train, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi, take selfies of each other, much to the delight of the cheering crowds.
It followed an official meeting in which the leaders agreed to reignite stalled talks on a formal trade deal, although both admit it will take yet more time.
There is, however, an understanding that Australian universities could play a part in India's ambitious five-year goal to educate 400 million of its people - a number 16 times the population of Australia.
Prime Minister Turnbull says Australia is the second-most-popular destination for Indian students, behind the United States.
"And as the vice-chancellors present can attest, our universities are working increasingly closely together in research and academic collaboration as well as staff and student exchange. The growing number of Indian alumni of Australian universities form an important bridge between our countries."
If the Indian government is to reach its target it'll need an extra four million university graduates every year.
Education Minister Simon Birmingham is also in New Delhi this week.
He's looking at how to grow the partnership further.
"We set these priorities because of the transformational value of our knowledge partnership, knowing that it can transform both Australia and India for the better, creating new opportunities for our peoples and closer ties that should last beyond the lives of many of us."
Mr Turnbull's also using his trip to ease tensions with the chairman of Indian miner, Adani, which plans to build a mine worth more than $20 billion in Queensland.
The project's recently been in doubt after a federal court ruling on more than 100 mining and pastoral agreements with native title holders.
While the federal government's introduced legislation into the Australian parliament to overturn the decision, the bill is stuck in the senate.
Acting Prime Minister and Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce says it's in the country's best interest for construction to commence.
"We're going to make sure that we get about 3,000 people directly employed, about 10,000 people indirectly employed. We're going to have a capacity to open up a new coal precinct in the Galilee Basin. We're going to have the capacity for a 25 million tonne-a-year mine that's going to be supplying coal to a super-critical coal-fired power station."
The multinational Adani is also seeking close to a billion dollars from the commonwealth in the form of a low-interest loan to build a rail link between the mine and the port.
Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has questioned whether there is any merit in taxpayers funding the project at all.
"Other mining companies aren't getting billion-dollar railways built for them and I think that if you want to have a good commercial operation in Australia, I'm not convinced that the taxpayer of Australia should underwrite the risk of the project through a billion-dollar loan. I'm not convinced of that at all."
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