“How India-Russia ties are not Soviet-era nostalgia, but a necessity in a multipolar world”, First Post, December 12, 2025
“Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit in early December to New Delhi was his most closely watched international engagement of the year—and perhaps his most strategically revealing. It came after a long hiatus, amid an international order unsettled by war, sanctions, and shifting great-power balances.
Yet the optics in New Delhi were deliberately understated: no grand declarations, no “special” rhetoric, no talk of forging a new bloc. Instead, what we saw was the quiet recalibration of one of the world’s oldest bilateral partnerships—rooted less in nostalgia and more in necessity.
The visit underscored a shared understanding between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Putin: neither country can afford to anchor its foreign policy on sentiment or Cold War alignments. The partnership endures not because of sentimentality about the Soviet era, but because both sides continue to see mutual advantage in crafting a relationship resilient to geopolitical shocks…..”
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