Watch | 'Indian Ruling Elites Lack Capacity to Stand Up to Big Powers': Sanjaya Baru

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Description: In an interview with The Wire's M.K. Venu, Baru discusses his recent column, and if India is losing its capacity to stand up to the US under Trump's regime.

In an interview with The Wire's M.K. Venu, Baru discusses his recent column, and if India is losing its capacity to stand up to the US under Trump's regime.

M.K. Venu

In an interview with The Wire's M.K. Venu, Baru discusses his recent column, and if India is losing its capacity to stand up to the US under Trump's regime.

The repeated demeaning of India by United States President Donald Trump in recent months and the lack of response from New Delhi cannot be called pragmatism anymore. It is time to push back as Canadian PM Mark Carney suggested middle powers do.

"Ever since Donald Trump started rubbishing India and mocking the Indian prime minister, and making all kinds of claims and criticisms, the Indian response has been subdued," says Sanjaya Baru, author, commentator and former adviser to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

In an interview with The Wire's M.K. Venu, Baru discusses his recent column on the same issue, and if India is losing its capacity to stand up to the US under Trump's regime.

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