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Prime Minister Narendra Modi sprang a surprise over when he appointed Subrahmanyam Jaishankar as External Affairs Minister in his second term in late May 2019. Jaishankar was the most suitable person to head the foreign ministry given his illustrious career in the Indian Foreign Service, having held prestigious assignments like that of foreign secretary and served as Ambassador to China and the US earlier. But perhaps the ministerial assignment came as a surprise to him, too. After retiring from foreign service, Jaishankar had started writing his book The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World , which came out in...
