In response to question in Parliament, MoS (External Affairs) gave details of Jaishankar’s travels between November 2022 & December 2023. PM Modi travelled to 12 countries during this period.
Ministry did not confirm nor deny reports that Canadian diplomats remain in India despite 'deadline' to leave or that Jaishankar & Canada counterpart Joly held secret meeting on row.
From Morales in Bolivia to Maduro in Venezuela to Morsi in Egypt, leaders have tried to challenge affirmative action and witnessed devastation. The RSS can take a lesson or two.
The Canadian PM was to leave Sunday evening but had to stay put as his ageing Polaris aircraft developed ‘technical issues’; a second plane sent to retrieve him was diverted to London.
Russian foreign ministry demands apology from the office of the French President, says representatives of 11 French media houses are accredited in Russia.
The drifting party organisation won’t really help PM Modi's cause. Too many skeletons are coming out of the BJP’s cupboards in one state after another.
Delhi may have evened the scale with China just a bit with its advocacy of the concerns of the emerging economies. But what happens when G20 presidency ends?
US' decades-old alliance system is changing in an era when countries seek to avoid choosing sides. Allies are now part of minilaterals and regional groupings.
Research paper, however, finds lowest indebtedness level among Muslims at 12.3% & highest among Hindus at 14.9%. Overall national financial inclusion level at 87.2%, indebtedness at 14.7%.
Fresh details of operation conducted by IAF, Army have come out in gazette notification giving citations of those who were awarded Vir Chakra for their bravery.
On 21 Oct, a buzz went up that the govt had released full list of gallantry award recipients along with Op Sindoor citations. I put an AI caddy on the job. It took me into a never-ending rabbit hole.
Sirji
These overseas visits can be called successful if those serve national interests ,otherwise those are just aimless private jaunts at taxpayers expense.
Voice of global south requires India to take principled stand. Ukraine and Israel showed that India failed to ‘lead’. Excepting off course for the take of the ‘godi’ media and few of the retired foreign secretaries their progenies and the so called experts placated in the govt. sponsored ‘think tanks’!
Gaza showed to the world that India has no followers in the Global South . The Change in India’s stand at UNO on Gaza showed that instead of the Global South following India it is actually the reverse case .
Our relations with neighbouring countries have reached to its lowest point. A sycophantic bureaucracy and the godi media which is engrossed in bashing less powerful countries like Pakistan and to an extent Canada (unlike to the USA) is not expected to get the Chinese aggressors to back out.
The improvement in relations with the US bloc does not reflect on the success of our diplomacy rather a success of the US diplomacy in getting India to be a pawn in the US – China geopolitics.
There are many instances which will substantiate the failures of Indian diplomacy in the last decade.
The causes for such failures may be many but the main one seems to be that international diplomacy and our foreign policy seems to be driven, unfortunately, by the whims and fancies of a few rather than by a well thought out institutionalised policy .
In the sycophantic world of today, India awaits that little kid who called the Emperor naked.
Amen.
Sirji
These overseas visits can be called successful if those serve national interests ,otherwise those are just aimless private jaunts at taxpayers expense.
Voice of global south requires India to take principled stand. Ukraine and Israel showed that India failed to ‘lead’. Excepting off course for the take of the ‘godi’ media and few of the retired foreign secretaries their progenies and the so called experts placated in the govt. sponsored ‘think tanks’!
Gaza showed to the world that India has no followers in the Global South . The Change in India’s stand at UNO on Gaza showed that instead of the Global South following India it is actually the reverse case .
Our relations with neighbouring countries have reached to its lowest point. A sycophantic bureaucracy and the godi media which is engrossed in bashing less powerful countries like Pakistan and to an extent Canada (unlike to the USA) is not expected to get the Chinese aggressors to back out.
The improvement in relations with the US bloc does not reflect on the success of our diplomacy rather a success of the US diplomacy in getting India to be a pawn in the US – China geopolitics.
There are many instances which will substantiate the failures of Indian diplomacy in the last decade.
The causes for such failures may be many but the main one seems to be that international diplomacy and our foreign policy seems to be driven, unfortunately, by the whims and fancies of a few rather than by a well thought out institutionalised policy .
In the sycophantic world of today, India awaits that little kid who called the Emperor naked.
Amen.