One of the objectives was to “liberate” India from the ‘colonial mindset’. The audience expected from Jaishankar an internal analysis of the situation and steps India had taken to come out of the colonial mindset. How this fit in with the colonial mindset alteration agenda is anybody’s guess. In contradiction to India’s desire to relieve itself from the colonial mindset, the Indian legal system is grounded in the colonial era. The contradiction in Indian politics is a bad omen for the minorities, especially the Kashmiris, who are forced to play puppet during the election season to garner the rightwing BJP vote.
