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India’s ‘great’ expectations of creating a multi-polar world order & the country’s reset with Canada

Global media also spotlighted Air India crash survivor Ramesh Viswashkumar as one of the few to have escaped such aviation disasters by a stroke of fate & the test ahead for Shubman Gill.

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New Delhi: India’s bid to create a multi-polar world order might just be evidence of the country punching above its weight, writes Ashley Tellis in Foreign Affairs, noting the fleet of issues standing in the way.

Economically, India is still no match for China. Even if China’s GDP grows by a “glacial” 2 percent each year, India will fail to overtake it. While US intervention is integral, “New Delhi will keep trying to push the international order toward multipolarity even if that is not what Washington wants”, says the report titled ‘India’s Great Power Delusions’.

Its politics is also changing–– “if the country’s politics do not revert, it will have serious consequences for the world. India would cease to be an exemplar of liberal democracy at a time when the world desperately needs one. It would not enhance the liberal international order, which promises both peaceful politics and economic prosperity and which has come under growing assault,” warns Tellis.

“In fact, if both India and the United States end up being persistently illiberal democracies, the post-war order—which has served both countries well, despite their current complaints to the contrary—would be severely damaged.”

AFP reports that India and Canada are moving on. The prime ministers of both nations have agreed to appoint new high commissioners to each other’s capitals—“turning a new page on a bitter spat”.

“The two leaders made the decision with a view to returning to regular services to citizens and businesses in both countries,” the Canadian prime minister’s office said in a statement.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Canadian PM Mark Carney met at the G7 summit in Alberta.

The India-Canada row—sparked by the 2023 killing of Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar in British Columbia and Canada’s subsequent allegation of Indian involvement—severely impeded diplomatic services between the two countries, which traded $9 billion worth of goods in 2023 and have close cultural ties due to the vast Indian diaspora in Canada, says the report.

Financial Times also weighed in on the “mending” of ties between India and Canada, noting that Carney said the discussion between the two leaders consisted of “a frank, open exchange of views” when it came to law enforcement.

Ramesh Viswashkumar, 40, sole survivor of the Air India plane crash in Ahmedabad last week, has joined a short list of those lucky enough to have been spared by fate, reports Washington Post.

Pakistani national Zafar Masud, Cuban citizen Mailén Díaz Almaguer, and Yemeni Bahia Bakari also share Ramesh’s seemingly miraculous trajectory. They all walked away from a plane crash relatively unharmed.

“Given that each crash is different, the notion that a passenger’s seat number on the plane determines their chances of surviving a crash is an urban myth, experts say. When there’s a single survivor like this, there is nothing you can do to be that person,” Graham Braithwaite, director of aerospace and aviation at Britain’s Cranfield University, was quoted as saying by The Post.

In dealing with the aftermath of the plane crash, Air India has a herculean task ahead. The incident comes “as a severe blow” to the Tata Group-owned enterprise, reports Financial Times.

“The crash in Ahmedabad is the biggest crisis in the three-and-a-half years since Tata bought the airline from state ownership and began a drive to restore the reputation of a brand many Indians saw as a national embarrassment,” says the report.

BBC’s Marc Higginson profiles India’s new test captain, 25-year-old Shubman Gill, seen as “the next big thing” after Sachin Tendulkar and Virat Kohli.

“Is Gill as good as those who came before him? Is he a smart choice as captain? And how can England get the better of him this summer?” asks Higginson.

(Edited by Nida Fatima Siddiqui)


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