Straight Talk | This Republic Day, The World Learns It Cannot Control India

On Republic Day this year, India is not celebrating its arrival. It is celebrating its refusal to disappear Seventy-seven years into being a Republic, India faces an odd predicament. It has become too successful to ignore and too unpredictable to control. The world is scrambling to adjust to this new reality. Europe is rewriting its foreign policy around Indian reliability. America is learning that tariffs cannot browbeat a nation convinced of its own strength. China is discovering that its neighbour will not flinch. This is not the India of 2014, not even the India of 2020. Something deeper has shifted….