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By:

Akhilesh Sinha

25 June 2025 at 2:53:54 pm

India's multi-align diplomacy triumphs

New Delhi: West Asia has transformed into a battlefield rained by fireballs. Seas or land, everywhere echoes the roar of cataclysmic explosions, flickering flames, and swirling smoke clouds. et amid such adversity, Indian ships boldly waving the Tricolour navigate the strait undeterred, entering the Arabian Sea. More remarkably, Iran has sealed its airspace to global flights but opened it for the safe evacuation of Indians.   This scene evokes Prime Minister Narendra Modi's memorable 2014...

India's multi-align diplomacy triumphs

New Delhi: West Asia has transformed into a battlefield rained by fireballs. Seas or land, everywhere echoes the roar of cataclysmic explosions, flickering flames, and swirling smoke clouds. et amid such adversity, Indian ships boldly waving the Tricolour navigate the strait undeterred, entering the Arabian Sea. More remarkably, Iran has sealed its airspace to global flights but opened it for the safe evacuation of Indians.   This scene evokes Prime Minister Narendra Modi's memorable 2014 interview. He stated that "there was a time when we counted waves from the shore; now the time has come to take the helm and plunge into the ocean ourselves."   In a world racing toward conflict, Modi has proven India's foreign policy ranks among the world's finest. Guided by 'Nation First' and prioritising Indian safety and interests, it steadfastly embodies  'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' , the world as one family.   Policy Shines Modi's foreign policy shines with such clarity and patience that even as war flames engulf West Asian nations, Indians studying and working there return home safe. In just 13 days, nearly 100,000 were evacuated from Gulf war zones, mostly by air, some via Armenia by road. PM Modi talked with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian to secure Iran's airspace for the safe evacuation of Indians, a privilege denied to any other nation. Additionally, clearance was granted for Indian ships carrying crude oil and LPG to pass safely through the Hormuz Strait. No other country's vessels are navigating these waters, except for those of Iran's ally, China. The same strategy worked in the Ukraine-Russia war: talks with both presidents ensured safe corridors, repatriating over 23,000 students and businessmen. Iran, Israel, or America, all know India deems terrorism or war unjustifiable at any cost. PM Modi amplified anti-terror campaigns from UN to global platforms, earning open support from many nations.   Global Powerhouse Bolstered by robust foreign policy and economic foresight, India emerges as a global powerhouse, undeterred by tariff hurdles. Modi's adept diplomacy yields notable successes. Contrast this with Nehru's era: wedded to Non-Aligned Movement, he watched NAM member China seize vast Ladakh territory in war. Today, Modi's government signals clearly, India honors friends, spares no foes. Abandoning non-alignment, it embraces multi-alignment: respecting sovereignties while prioritizing human welfare and progress. The world shifts from unipolar or bipolar to multipolar dynamics.   Modi's policy hallmark is that India seal defense deals like the S-400 and others with Russia yet sustains US friendship. America bestows Legion of Merit; Russia, its highest civilian honor, Order of St. Andrew the Apostle. India nurtures ties with Israel, Palestine, Iran via bilateral talks. Saudi Arabia stands shoulder-to-shoulder across fronts; UAE trade exceeds $80 billion. UN's top environment award, UNEP Champions of the Earth, graces India, unlike past when foreign nations campaigned against us on ecological pretexts.   This policy's triumph roots in economic empowerment. India now ranks the world's fourth-largest economy, poised for third in 1-2 years. The 2000s dubbed it 'fragile'; then-PM economist Dr. Manmohan Singh led. Yet  'Modinomics'  prevailed. As COVID crippled supply chains, recession loomed, inflation soared and growth plunged in developed countries,  Modinomics  made India the 'bright star.' Inflation stayed controlled, growth above 6.2 per cent. IMF Chief Economist Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas praised it, advising the world to learn from India.

Moral Collapse


Few stories lay bare the moral rot in India’s local institutions as starkly as the death of a 29-year-old government doctor in Satara. She was found hanging last week in her hotel room in Phaltan in western Maharashtra. Days later, it emerged that she had accused a police officer of rape, another of harassment, and a local member of parliament of pressuring her to falsify medical reports. In her final weeks, she wrote letters, filed complaints, and even an RTI application seeking accountability. No one listened. When she warned that if anything happened to her, the police would be responsible, the state looked the other way.


Her story exposes a grim intersection of gender, power and impunity. The young medical officer had been locked in a protracted conflict with the Phaltan police. She had refused to sign off on ‘fit for custody’ certificates for accused individuals with visible health complications. This act of integrity, instead of earning her protection, invited vengeance. The police counter-accused her of dereliction, alleging that she deliberately delayed arrests by declaring suspects medically unfit. The standoff escalated into intimidation. When her June complaint was ignored, she filed an RTI in August, a desperate attempt to pierce the bureaucratic wall of silence.


By then, her life had begun to unravel. A four-page statement she submitted to a departmental inquiry in August catalogued the harassment she faced. It included chilling details: a police sub-inspector, she alleged, had raped her more than once; others had threatened her for resisting their demands. Worse still, she claimed that a parliamentarian’s aide had called, accusing her of ‘favouring’ the accused because she hailed from Beed district – a slur that reeked of misogyny, caste prejudice and provincial bigotry. The MP, she wrote, berated her over the phone for “not issuing certificates as desired by the police.”


Instead of shielded her, her superiors issued reminders about her ‘availability 24×7.’ The very institutions meant to enforce law and preserve life had turned on their own employee.


Her suicide note is an indictment not merely of individuals but of a system that failed to respond to warning after warning.


The Satara tragedy recalls a pattern too familiar in India’s governance culture: whistleblowers abandoned, victims of sexual violence disbelieved, and lower-rank officials crushed between political patronage and bureaucratic inertia. Each complaint she filed was a test of the system’s conscience. Each unanswered letter was a failure of that conscience. Her death is not a mystery to be solved but a mirror held up to the apathy that corrodes institutions from within.


Justice, when and if it comes, must extend beyond the perfunctory arrests or suspensions. It must ask why a doctor had to fight alone against a network of police, politicians, and administrators. Until those questions are answered, every promise of reform will ring hollow and every government doctor in India’s hinterland will know how little the state values courage or life.

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