Failure to do so would lead to a prejudicial impact on the sovereignty of the people”. It was not even a cohabitation government; it was two parties coming together to form an administration in a marriage of convenience. The honeymoon didn’t last long as parochial party politics came to roost at the expense of the citizens. India in recent times, and particularly under the present administration, has played hardball in foreign policy and also taken a strong, controversial pro-Hindutva line. Big, and now economically stable, India too can take the ‘Do as we say not as we do’ policy.

Source: Sunday Times January 22, 2023 01:15 UTC