She is right, the world expects more from us and we fail the people of India, when we do not measure up to our potential. One of the key functions of a diplomatic system like the MEA is to create what Joseph S. Nye has called “soft power” – that is, rather than forcing others to do what you want them to do, “it is about getting others to want what you want”. A 0.64 per cent expenditure from the national budget on creating soft power does not do justice to India’s global agenda.
Let’s be clear about the antecedents of Kavith ji.
I request her to clarify her character Caliber and competence and offcourse authentication of sermon on diplomacy by her
Surprise, Kavitha can write such stuff (no offense meant). She never exhibited such smarts till now, working as she was amidst the riffraff and goondas of TRS. Well, one wonders, why people with such thought processes do not mind the large scale loot and violence that happens under their watch. She and her father are notoriously corrupt, with KCR said to have amassed more than Rs 1000 cr during the Telangana agitation. Will Kavitha tell her father to take action against the MLA who beat up the lady IFS officer in Telangana recently?
I agree with the writer on the point that India’s diplomatic strength is very low for a country of our size and that there is a need to increase the number of personnel in this sector, however I do not agree with the point raised about the need for India to increase its foreign aid simply because India cannot compete with China in terms of foreign aid as their is vast difference in the size of the economy of the two countries and also because both Turkey and China are effectively military dictatorships who do not care about their own people’s misery in various regions of their own countries and thus providing aid to protect their own leadership from foreign intervention. Finally, commenting on the last paragraph of the article calling upon India as the largest democracy and owing it to the world, I think we first need to owe it to our own people as regards to the aid it provides.
This is a brilliant article. I congratulate the author for her quality of thought and analysis. My only question is, why is it that we do not hear her more often? Well done, Ma’am.
She is right, the world expects more from us and we fail the people of India, when we do not measure up to our potential.
VERY nice post
She is right, the world expects more from us and we fail the people of India, when we do not measure up to our potential. One of the key functions of a diplomatic system like the MEA is to create what Joseph S. Nye has called “soft power” – that is, rather than forcing others to do what you want them to do, “it is about getting others to want what you want”. A 0.64 per cent expenditure from the national budget on creating soft power does not do justice to India’s global agenda.
thanks for sharing She is right, the world expects more from us and we fail the people of India, when we do not measure up to our potential.
Let’s be clear about the antecedents of Kavith ji.
I request her to clarify her character Caliber and competence and offcourse authentication of sermon on diplomacy by her
Surprise, Kavitha can write such stuff (no offense meant). She never exhibited such smarts till now, working as she was amidst the riffraff and goondas of TRS. Well, one wonders, why people with such thought processes do not mind the large scale loot and violence that happens under their watch. She and her father are notoriously corrupt, with KCR said to have amassed more than Rs 1000 cr during the Telangana agitation. Will Kavitha tell her father to take action against the MLA who beat up the lady IFS officer in Telangana recently?
I agree with the writer on the point that India’s diplomatic strength is very low for a country of our size and that there is a need to increase the number of personnel in this sector, however I do not agree with the point raised about the need for India to increase its foreign aid simply because India cannot compete with China in terms of foreign aid as their is vast difference in the size of the economy of the two countries and also because both Turkey and China are effectively military dictatorships who do not care about their own people’s misery in various regions of their own countries and thus providing aid to protect their own leadership from foreign intervention. Finally, commenting on the last paragraph of the article calling upon India as the largest democracy and owing it to the world, I think we first need to owe it to our own people as regards to the aid it provides.
This is a brilliant article. I congratulate the author for her quality of thought and analysis. My only question is, why is it that we do not hear her more often? Well done, Ma’am.
She is right, the world expects more from us and we fail the people of India, when we do not measure up to our potential.