“There is no reason why we should vary our basic policy just to please these Middle East countries.”
Guidelines for the coming session of the United Nations General Assembly, 12 September 1948 By PM Jawaharlal Nehru
Bootlickers of nehru-gandhi dynasty would really benefit themselves if they actually listened to pandit nehru’s advice instead of placing the interests of some Islamic countries above that of their own nation.
Foreign policy is guided by national interest. Always enduring, long term, but not frozen in time. The collapse of the So it Union required India to re calibrate its approach to USA, and it did. It helped that USA too, although it had forged an opportunistic partnership with China against USSR, began to sense that China, already more than a decade into transformative reforms was the rising power it would have to deal with. 2. Recent Indian foreign policy changes, notably excessive closeness to USA, have not stood the test of time. No progress with Pakistan, regression with China. More Big Brother than elder brother in South Asia. So, yes, Indian foreign policy should recall the contributor Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with respect and gratitude.
You are wrong. Modi is not doing “non-alignment”. It is multi-alignment.
Unlike Nehru, Modi is not anti-America and anti-Europe
“There is no reason why we should vary our basic policy just to please these Middle East countries.”
Guidelines for the coming session of the United Nations General Assembly, 12 September 1948 By PM Jawaharlal Nehru
Bootlickers of nehru-gandhi dynasty would really benefit themselves if they actually listened to pandit nehru’s advice instead of placing the interests of some Islamic countries above that of their own nation.
Foreign policy is guided by national interest. Always enduring, long term, but not frozen in time. The collapse of the So it Union required India to re calibrate its approach to USA, and it did. It helped that USA too, although it had forged an opportunistic partnership with China against USSR, began to sense that China, already more than a decade into transformative reforms was the rising power it would have to deal with. 2. Recent Indian foreign policy changes, notably excessive closeness to USA, have not stood the test of time. No progress with Pakistan, regression with China. More Big Brother than elder brother in South Asia. So, yes, Indian foreign policy should recall the contributor Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru with respect and gratitude.