The Indian prime minister — or at least the team that organises his diaspora outreach events — doesn’t know much about Springsteen. He is still prime minister and, according to most polls, personally very popular with large sections of Indians. How his government tackles this new reality will shape India’s foreign policy under Modi 3.0. Modi can look for inspiration from former prime ministers with similarly unclear mandates who nonetheless took bold foreign policy positions. Charu Sudan Kasturi is a senior journalist who writes on foreign policy and international relations

Source: The Telegraph June 26, 2024 07:15 UTC