How Jaishankar’s recent statements convey that India is no pushover in post-Cold War world

New Delhi has conveyed, for the first time after the 1971 Bangladesh War, that it’s no global push-over as our post-Cold War Western friends had determined thus far By taking on Western Europe for the patronising advice over India’s Russia equations in the light of the Ukraine war, that too after ticking off their trans-Atlantic American counterparts on the same issue, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar is emerging as the masculine face of diplomatic India on the global stage. Instead, it implies that New Delhi has conveyed, for the first time after the Bangladesh War, that it’s no global push-over as our post-Cold War Western friends had determined thus far. Yet, India is also alive and should be even more about Russia and China coming closer in the light of European events and developments centred on Ukraine, among other things, with possibilities for Moscow’s New Delhi relations, especially in geo-politics and geo-strategic terms. For instance, New Delhi is tough on Russia’s human rights violations in Ukraine as far as it is convinced, but is tougher on the West for asking India to abide by their unilateral sanctions on Moscow, whose aim is to keep the war contained to Ukraine and to secure their economies and peoples.