In the leadership that he has provided over the past decade, Modi has projected what is claimed to be 'strong' leadership. But he has rarely, if ever, demonstrated 'wise' leadership. And given the domestic and external environment today, India needs wise and mature leadership.

The US state department’s observations last week on the arrest of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and the income-tax notices issued to the Congress party are only the latest signals of a deteriorating relationship.

At this week's event, hosted by CNN-News18, all the politicians invited are from the BJP. No one from any opposition party is advertised as a speaker. Even those that claim to promote 'journalism of courage' have become platforms for the powerful to voice their opinions to select elite audiences.

One must differentiate between those Indians who may have been forced to migrate decades ago as indentured labour but are now happily settled in their host countries, middle class migrants who are living comfortable lives overseas, and a working class migrating in desperation.

By not allowing the border issue, with China occupying newly acquired territory along the so-called "Line of Actual Control", to further mar the relationship, Prime Minister Modi has yielded space and conceded ground.

India, which has once again topped the global charts with respect to inward Dollar remittances, has been increasingly relying on foreign remittances from overseas Indians to manage its balance of payments.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi may not like being told his 'multi-alignment and voice of Global South' is New India's version of Old India's 'non-alignment and Third World solidarity'.     

From laser lights stabbing the New Delhi sky out of Bharata Mandapam, the venue of the G20 Summit, to the multi-coloured lighting of the Qutub Minar, kitsch has taken over from culture.

The 2023 edition of A.K. Damodaran's book, 'Jawaharlal Nehru: A Communicator and Democratic Leader' is a reminder of the Himalayan gap that has come to exist between the intellectual calibre of India's first PM and that of the contemporary political leadership.

If Indian politics walks down the path that Pakistan politics has walked and if the Indian elite, like their Pakistani counterparts, delink their own future from their country's, the chances that the Indian growth process too would slow down remains a possibility.

Two books – 'The Rise of the Infrastructure State' and 'Asian Geopolitics and the US-China Rivalry' – support the claim that the world today is 'bi-multipolar', moving in the direction of greater multipolarity. 

The former Japanese prime minister set out a new vision of India-Japan relations through his ‘Broader Asia’ idea and played a crucial role in how own nation's development.

In 'Jugalbandi: The BJP Before Modi', Vinay Sitapati looks at the relationship between Atal Bihari Vajpayee and L.K. Advani.

Francine Frankel's new book traces India's first prime minister's attempts to factor the US into what became a triangular relationship and the consequences of those pivotal years.

Every crisis, man-made or natural, is pregnant with political possibilities and politicians will take policy decisions based on their assessment of how their choices promote their political and personal power.

Every crisis, man-made or natural, is pregnant with political possibilities and politicians will take policy decisions based on their assessment of how their choices promote their political and personal power.

Economic self-interest has defined the foreign policy of more nations than larger considerations of culture and civilisation.

Trade must get on to the G20 agenda. That ought to be India’s message at Buenos Aires.

It should now be clear that when it comes to economic policy, there is no major difference between Modi and his predecessors