The influence of Hindutva’s unique brand of realism on Modi’s foreign policy is apparent.
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January 01, 2021
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A spate of inquiries into the nature of rising India, specifically under the tenure of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, have attempted to examine the role of Hindutva as the guiding philosophical framework for the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) foreign policy orientation. Present-day iterations of both the BJP and its key associate and ideological repository, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangha (RSS), claim allegiance to long-standing Hindu ideas on politics, economics, and society.
These variegated ideas, espoused most prominently by figures such as Swami Vivekananda, V.D. Savarkar, H. V. Sheshadri, and M.S. Golwalkar, were formed during a period of Hindu renaissance in early to mid-20th century colonial India. At the time, these interlocutors attempted to define the religion’s scope in exclusivist “national” terms by adumbrating the requisit
PM Modi to address UNSC in two years, says envoy as India joins security council Geeta Mohan
India has joined the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) as a non-permanent member for the eighth time. The tenure begins on January 1, 2021, and will last two years. India s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador TS Tirumurti spoke exclusively to India Today TV and said the country will aggressively push for UN reforms during its tenure as also focus on a human-centric approach to development and continue its sustained campaign against terrorism and sponsors of terror.
India is one of the five incoming members of the UNSC. The other four are Norway, Mexico, Ireland, Kenya
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In a major move to boost domestic defence manufacturing, the Union Cabinet on Wednesday approved the export of indigenously-developed Akash missile system
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India-Russia Relations Face More Trouble
India and Russia cancelled their annual summit for the first time in two decades. Is China the reason why?
December 31, 2020
India’s Foreign Minister S. Jaishankar, left, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, and China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, pose for a photo on the sidelines of a meeting of Foreign Ministers of Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Commonwealth of Independent States and Collective Security Treaty Organization Member States in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, September 10. 2020.
Credit: Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service via AP
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India and Russia have gone through several ups and downs in their decades-old bilateral relationship. The two appear at present to be going through a tricky phase. The two-decade old India-Russia annual summit was cancelled for the first time. A news report in India suggested that the postponement was the result of “severe reservations on New Del