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The first quarter of 2024 was quite fast-paced and engaging for India on multiple fronts. Positioning technology at the core, efforts are on to develop indigenous technology to achieve self-reliance (Aatmanirbharta) in defence and retain meaningful strategic autonomy in a fragmented, polarised, and geopolitically charged world today.
The current global reality is clouded and loaded with an unending string of rhetoric. Closely watching the dynamic flux in geopolitics, India’s strategic positioning over the last decade has altered significantly. New confluences in India’s changing strategic geography now span regions, from island states and territories in the South Pacific to those along the African coast and in Europe. In the backdrop of the unending wars in Gaza and Ukraine, self-assured Indian foreign policy lexicon has brought ‘Vishwamitra’ to the centre stage globally, aligned to the nation’s rising power stature. Shedding its past defensive stance and expressing itself with more clarity and confidence, India has strengthened its standing on the global arena as a consensus-building and unifying power. Instead of being trapped by mere narratives and rhetoric, India’s pragmatic demand for executing the right action plan to come out of the current imbroglio has resonated well with wider acceptance.
