In this particular endeavour, I contemplated a world that is struggling with economic disruptions, the Covid pandemic, the Ukraine conflict, an exploding West Asia (Middle East) and sharpening great power competition, and sought to assess India’s prospects in ascending the global hierarchy in such volatile conditions. That exercise brought home to me how much we have progressed in the preceding years and how differently we are now seen as compared to the era before 2014. India has today moved out of the defensive non-aligned posture, engaging multiple nations on a range of issues with equal
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