India’s foreign policy involves the influencing of international agenda and shaping of global narratives drawing on our own history and culture, besides taking a long and deliberative view of the challenges that the world faces, Union Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar said on February 26.
He was delivering the H.N. Kunzru Memorial Lecture on the topic “Bharat and the World” at the School of International Studies (SIS), Jawaharlal Nehru University. “Our approach should not be clouded by imported ideologies and global conformism. Instead, there is a self-assured analysis on how our national goals are best advanced, coupled with the experiences we share with others and the empathy this generates,” Mr. Jaishankar said.
Although there has been a political and economic rebalancing of the world order and India has moved up in the last decade, this change is real but “imperfect and incomplete” as the struggle for cultural rebalancing has only just begun. “The battle is on. Economically, Bharat’s answer is greater Atmanirbharta and politically, a more authentic and rooted representation that will contest the propaganda...” the Foreign Minister said.
