FOR THE WESTERN PRAISE, NOTHING IS POSSIBLE.
For some Indians, none of that counts. The most important aspect is that Modi’s states appear to be supported by the world.
People of India’s great Western community, who are among Modi’s strongest followers, violently sound the BJP’s tale. The primary minister himself when stated to a community group that despite their own shame over the repressive nation they had left, he had also transformed their Indianness into a source of pride.
More directly to the point, the Group of Twenty ( G20 ) summit in New Delhi from last year appeared to show a swarm of world leaders lining up to applaud India.
What they might have been saying in secret is of little significance. US President Joe Biden was apparently raising the tough issue of India’s potential involvement in assassinations on American soil behind closed doors at that same summit. ) Before the cameras, Biden and others lauded India- and, by suggestion, Modi- for demonstrating world command at a fraught political moment.
For European nations, like effusive people tributes cost little, and they have the substantial benefit of keeping New Delhi on-side politely. Consider how Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a member of Turkey’s elite, basked in German admiration early on, and how much of a thorn in his neighbors ‘ sides he became when those use turned to condemnation.