India is now projected to become the world’s third-largest economy by 2030, behind only the United States and China. Read more at straitstimes.com.
NEW DELHI – Seated in the domed, red sandstone government building unveiled by the British Raj less than two decades before India threw off imperial rule, Mr S. Jaishankar, the Indian foreign minister, needs no reminder of how the tides of history sweep away antiquated systems to usher in the new.
Here comes Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s India, pursuing its own interests with a new assertiveness, throwing off any sense of inferiority and rejecting unalloyed alignment with the West. But which India will strut the 21st-century global stage, and how will its influence be felt? Which way Mr Modi’s form of nationalism will lean remains to be seen. It has given many Indians a new pride and bolstered the country’s international stature, even as it has weakened the country’s pluralist and secularist model.by the prime minister.
Known as “the corridor” and opened a year ago, the project connects the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, dedicated to the Hindu god Shiva, to the riverfront a quarter-mile away. A self-made man from a humble background in the western state of Gujarat – and from a low status in India’s caste system, or social hierarchy – Mr Modi has come to embody an aspirational India.
Armed guards are everywhere. They stand beside the mosque, which is encased behind a 6m metal fence topped with coils of razor wire. If Mr Putin has chosen to portray Ukraine as a birthplace of the Russian world inseparable from the motherland and embraced the Orthodox Church as a bastion of his power, Mr Modi has chosen Varanasi as a core vehicle of his assertion of India as essentially a Hindu nation. Of course, the Indian leader did so in the interest of power consolidation, not conquest.
With inequality worsening, food security worsening, energy security worsening and climate change accelerating, more countries are asking what answers the post-1945 Western-dominated order can provide. India, it seems, believes it can be a broker, bridging East-West and North-South divisions.
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