Self-goal

A lot of people talk about India rising,” Barack Obama declared in November when in Mumbai. “But, in our view, India has already risen.” Even such obvious flattery is music to Indian ears, because the average Indian remains hungry for endorsement by the rest of the world — that a country “long suppressed” has arrived again on the world stage. It is after all the second-fastest growing economy, a member of the G20, a pillar of BRICS, and a claimant to permanent membership of the Security Council.

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