Aparna Pande is Research Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia, as well as author ...
Aparna Pande is Research Fellow and Director of the Hudson Institute’s Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia, as well as author of From Chanakya to Modi: Evolution of India’s Foreign Policy and, this year, Making India Great: The Promise of a Reluctant Global Power.
The book takes a careful look at the many challenges – economic, social, military – that confront modern India and stand in the way of the Great Power status that Indians seems to believe is inevitable.
Scroll.in spoke to Pande about how India’s image is changing globally since Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s second term began, why India’s liberal character matters and why Indian foreign policy research needs more of a focus on history.
What was your aim in writing this book?
The reason I wrote it was because I see that Indians want to be a Great Power and Indians believe we will be a Great Power. But we also believe we don’t really need to work to become one. It is our right to be one, because we are 5,000 years old and only one of two 5,000-year-old continuous civilisations, and because we are a unique example in the last seven decades of being...
