"We have to be confident about who we are. I think it is better to engage the world on the basis of who we are rather than try and please the world as a pale imitation of what they are,"
Brave words from S. Jaishankar India’s Foreign Minister and I am starting to admire his foreign policy stands, but the truth is India is nowhere where Jaishankar thinks it is or would like it to be. With Modi at the helm, the country’s economy is very precarious and its sixth best rank in world GDP is due to a past set of fortunate circumstances and is unsustainable. Unemployment is at record levels, Corruption has crept in every facet of Indian life more than ever before, the lives of the poor have sunk to previously unplumbed depths, while a few cronies of Modi like the corrupt Adani have outdone long standing US billionaires like Warren Buffet in their personal wealth merely by hollowing out India’s rotten banking system. The influx of wealth and investment transfers from Europe and the US in past decades have given a false sense of security to the Indian economy, ignoring that flight capital can impoverish a country in a short matter of time. India is becoming a pariah among nations with its genocidal attitude towards its minorities which by now is no longer a local secret. Irresponsible and crazy statements by ruling party mavericks only add fuel to the fire and large corporations and investors are no doubt taking note of it with regard to their capital at risk. Post Covid inflation challenges test even the best governments on the globe let alone the ragtag and motley crew of illiterate, corrupt and shortsighted communalists that parade as Indian legislators. So Mr. Jaishankar, your heart is in the right place but don’t carry it on your sleeve because the rest of your Hindutva gang knows little of how to run a country. Truth be told no matter how stridently they deny it, their success so far was achieved on the backs of far better people who preceded them. India defends its Russia position at Raisina Dialogue https://www.dw.com/en/india-defends-its-russia-position-criticizes-west-at-raisina-dialogue/a-61635857 Roland. Toronto.
