A result of the military operations against Pakistan is that India’s strategic vulnerabilities now stand exposed to the world…. While Indian youth has been diverted to detecting beef-eaters, cattle-traders, ‘anti-nationals’, and targeting the minorities, Chinese youth is achieving generational leaps in AI. Our educators have been ideologically brainwashed to the extent that some are trying to extract gold from cow-urine and others are plastering classrooms with cow-dung to counter extreme heat.
While Prime Minister Narendra Modi tirelessly upspeaks Operation Sindoor, political signals suggest that globally he is considerably diminished. His voice was not sufficient to represent India internationally. Recognising that India’s voice must represent not one but a multiplicity of ideologies and communities, the all-party delegations of MPs selected to speak for India abroad were diverse.
That Modi had to take this reality on board shows that his stature has eroded in the last 11 years. The prime minister, who treated the Opposition with disdain, had to host a dinner for the returning MPs who had spoken for his government abroad.
Perhaps the hardest to swallow was that the result of the military operations is that India’s strategic vulnerabilities now stand exposed to the world. The self-proclaimed friendship and alliance with United States President Donald Trump has taken a visible knock. It would have been unthinkable earlier for External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar to say, as he did recently, that India’s relationship with the US was “not about personality X or president Y.”
Instead of backing India’s right to self-defence after the Pahalgam terror strike the US policy establishment adopted a cautious and neutral tone. Trump claimed that he used trade threats to force the ceasefire, and his offer to mediate on the Kashmir issue was a definite diplomatic setback….
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/post-operation-sindoor-blues-dog-modi-government-3584222
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