“Pawn in a bigger game: Why Washington is interested in Bangladesh”, First Post, December 17, 2023:
“Imagine the India that was, about twenty years ago. A huge market, driven chiefly by domestic consumption – a foreign investors’ delight. It had a young, upwardly mobile urban population that was moderately educated and with a minimal sense of identity. They sought full Westernisation, were driven by individualistic consumptive patterns and aspirations, and were poised to set the trend among the rest of the country.
The intelligent ones remained busy looking out for and migrating to greener pastures for career growth – mostly in Western nations like the USA, the UK, France, Germany or Australia.
There used to be a weak political and bureaucratic class that was chiefly driven by opportunism, bribery, and blackmail. India, just a few decades ago used to be a soft-state with terribly weak internal security, and a cosmetic international presence that survived on Western validation; it was a country fairly dependent on the USA – a copybook vassal……”
Read the full article at Firstpost.com
