“Bharat’s Diplomatic Moment: From Strategic Autonomy To Civilisational Leadership”, News18, 4 Sep 2026.

“The world is entering an age of geopolitical turbulence. Wars are raging, alliances are being redrawn, old certainties are collapsing, and the post-Cold War international order is increasingly unable to contain the rivalries it once appeared to manage. In this unsettled landscape, one country stands apart from the binary choices that have defined much of modern international politics: Bharat.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s recent meetings with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit should therefore be viewed as more than routine diplomatic engagements. They reflect the emergence of a distinctly Indian approach to international affairs, one rooted not in submission to any geopolitical bloc, but in strategic autonomy, national interest and the civilisational confidence of a rising Bharat.

For decades, India was expected to choose. Choose Moscow or Washington. Choose the West or the developing world. Choose Israel or the Arab world. Choose one ideological camp and define its foreign policy accordingly…………”

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