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thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about indias current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? its not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that its a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now its number one in global population, its number three in purchasing power parity terms in the overall gd...

shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about indias current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? its not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that its a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now its number one in global population, its number three in purchasing...

shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about indias current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? its not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that its a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now its number one in global population, its number three in purchasing...

shashi tharoor, welcome to hardtalk. thank you. good to see you again, stephen. you just heard me talk about indias current place in the world, the most populous nation, a growing economy, a stable government. would you agree that india right now is in a good place? its not in a bad place in overall terms. that is that its a country, it has always been, i think, a country to be reckoned with on the world stage, but now its number one in global population, its number three in purchasing...

As a strong partner in the brics organisation with china and russia? no, look, this is again a case perhaps that youre going to turn around and say you want to have it both ways. but india has traditionally said were going to preserve our rights to do both, our strategic autonomy matters to us. it becomes increasingly difficult, particularly at crunch times like this, when, for clearly obvious reasons, india is going to have to make some choices. so at the moment we are in brics, and in fact, we...

And you also have the united states, which youve had a somewhat complicated relationship with for many years. its in pretty good shape at the moment. in the long run, do you believe that indias destiny is to develop a much closer, warmer relationship with washington or to maintain as a strong partner in the brics organisation with china and russia? no, look, this is again a case perhaps that youre going to turn around and say you want to have it both ways. but india has traditionally said were g...