Jaishankar at Express Adda: Being a majority government makes a difference in the way the world sees us…but it isn’t as simple as that

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I wrote the book (Why Bharat Matters) primarily to convince people that today foreign policy does matter to you. With each passing year, something abroad has happened which has fundamentally changed our life. The biggest thing in the last five years has been Covid. Now, it’s not just Covid. There have been conflicts in the world before, but if you look at the conflict in Ukraine today, or you look at what’s happening in Gaza and the Red Sea, it’s actually affecting bread-and-butter issues in this country. We have about 1.2 million students studying abroad at any given time. So...