“Woh zamana gya jab log samajhte thhey videsh niti koi door ki baat hai…” External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is heard saying in a video clip that surfaced on social media on Sunday. The purpose of taking the G20 meetings through the country, he says, was to “make the world India ready, and also to make India world ready”. At this time though, India seems fully out of step with the rest of the international community on an issue that threatens to cleave the world deeper than the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
India’s abstention in the vote on a resolution in the United Nations General Assembly calling for a humanitarian truce in Israel’s war on Gaza recalled Delhi’s tightrope walk on the votes over the Ukraine-Russia issue.
