r. r, yet to be taken down. the grand staging of the g 20 brought together the queen impulses of multi either foreign policy. to impress indian voters about the country superball status, and to showcase the prime minister as advising global statesman. the lack of the fact is undeniable pleasure to welcome prime minister to a strategy a movie has been welcomed across many western capital. each visit marked by slickly stage events and portable. a dramatic done it on from 2 decades ago. when the united states denied more the visa because of port sylvia, violations of religious feelings rather than stem from sick, dead in violence in the western state of good job in 2002, when movie was chief minister of it over a 1000. what did most of them mostly body has strenuously denied any in the island concerns or the persecution of minorities and the suppression of descent in india, buses. duty even if they're not device explicitly by many wisdom, lead us in 2022. the us state department of the park listed significant human rights issues and abuse of in india, in the past decade or so. the, as the word order has segmented and in the economy and dice, but has drawn the wrist. no beacon of rights and values. it says has chosen to downplay any one of you regarding the trajectory. i think there are a specific reasons why western governments have decided to put aside their concerns about democratic backsliding and human rights violations in india, particularly after 2014. i think one of them is definitely the idea that in the eyes, this potential market, the bright spot is the world bank, has called it in a was where there are very few good stories when it comes to the economy. the 2nd, i think, is the idea of that in a world off unpredictability, off conflict, and all of these alpha bowers coming up, you know, russia, china, india stands out as a kind of counterbalance the democracy in india is the concern for human rights now or the is fitting abroad, what does a you and human rights commission, or maybe some media arriving all the due date is these kind of questions. but when you build up the rough ones with the needle, then he understands that being a very important box or from listen would use a strong effort to explain the perspectives of india to explain what is happening in the directly creating a rapport with his intellect, who does abroad, and this one had a very, i think, positive, and i would save some cases, even spectacular outcomes among those who caused spectacular outcomes. with this in 2023 prime minister movie was invited to address a joint session of the united states congress. taught this on a i asked in my deepest gratitude on behalf of the one point told bmc for india. this was followed by a lot of the didn't and at the white house, a diplomatic one know deserved for the us as close as ban lights, chairs. it's important to note though that movie wasn't the 1st name, didn't prime minister to be on in this way. several indian beams in the boston address joined the sessions and it'll be hosted at the white house. it's a hallmark of movie eat up foreign policy. however, the events like these are high in a manner that vendors previous ones invisible. bgp says this is not just type in the west on a deal making speech defense backs with from a major free trade agreement in the works with the u. k. and high tech deal with a usc for teaming up to design and develop a new technologies are going to transform the lives. are people around the world. it's an indication of how well, please in guys your politically that when the ukraine war broke out, a new denny refused to condemn russia rather than being shunned or licked showed that india found it says being ruled by all sides. not least by leaders in the west back home, india, as a rule, as a sort of the mediator and the ukraine conflict was funding to election propaganda . during these mil elections in 2023, the president of the b j. b. alton, the campaign c deemed of the prime minister had managed to bring a horse through the water new cream to allow indian students to escape you're used to what the pas are, you know, what are the yeah, a lot of the are brought up too much. it didn't, you know delicate, but these are the, roughly with the foreign ministry. was often up this briefing for details of this diplomatic mazda screw. reality didn't quite stack up. we got the specific inputs that look at this is a, this is a move that's available. these are the places that the indian citizen should go by this time we can read that last citizens and i'm happy that many could make it, but it struck a lifting batch to see that somebody holding a bumping. uh, on that uh, you know, this is something we have for lifting that i think is that is absolutely inactive. despite the denies the story been died, it came up again in a b j. b campaign video for the upcoming elections. god, that would be the i'm a goodly a record default or for everybody both because you pop up in the normal cost full. so this kind of political body would have been blown out of the water. how about in the media landscape that's being lodge me? brock to hear the movie governments that humans are amplified, it's setbacks down played and it isn't as if they haven't been set back. one of the most significant, sensational activation by the prime minister of canada, just due to know that the indian head office paid the beginning of us the separate test on canadian, sorry, incredible allegations of a potential link between agents of the government of india and the killing of a canadian citizen, hard to sing nature, india foreign minister denied the accusation and blamed canada for giving safe haven to seek extreme favor creating an independent state in front job in india as north with in the last. uh sure, yes. canada, actually it has seen a lot of organized crime, you know, relating to, you know, the session. it's a process organized crime while and 6th stream is like weeks later, the crisis snowboard a similar navigation came from india as allies, the united states. the india had attempted to assassinate the speak, separatist on us territory. given india is growing strategic importance to the west . the setback is unlikely to calls tvs to diplomatic damage, but it didn't just own backyard. there's been a breakdown of relations with china, a stand off between 2 strong men, lead to the spiking of tensions to please despise more of these out. feet. that will be $181.00 to $1.00 meetings between him and china spends. and she jen, thing i do agree that the fact that of china is, is very significant. i would say quite clearly that the brightness of what he made every effort. there's no doubt about that. you know, there was all the, the bilateral meetings, they had too many of the meetings and some it. but what happened in 2020 and galvan came as a complete shock, a series of chinese army incursions in the gold. one valley contested him on the invasion. wind over into a deadly class in 2020, some of which captured and video released by the chinese apologies. it was the 1st major instance of fighting in nearly 4 decades. at least 20 indian and 4 chinese solar just reportedly died in the fighting. china is not the only neighbor with whom talks have broken down. the situation has also deteriorated with bach. hassan, but here a collapse of diplomacy may have actually worked to the more the government's advantage. the hindu right represented by movie and his party, the bgp had long used foxes, not as far as the white campaign to target indian muslims, instead of waiting their loyalties. i would seen guys listening with dorothy neighbor even so when he 1st came to apply to vicki to go movie made a boy just to invite him to been prime minister of boxes, done the last cities to his wedding in a year later. another surprise moved. he dropped into la hood for an i'm expected meeting with chevy, but that's promising. stopped sod quickly. the what it is of it that focused on has a long history for violence and terrorism against india, india and number down. and it's actually based on the spark of sand backing proxy, tentative and learning again. story and of wesley bought attention about breaking news coming into a mattress game to ahead in 2019 when as retaliation for instead of the stripe on indian troops increased means in get launched. unprecedented aspect, deep inside buck this on, instead of the with the email, take notes, data discounts, the bombardment conducted months before the indians, national elections that you like to a near total breakdown of relations with buck. this time for the strikes galvanized immediately these naturalists credentials once a building to a 9 flight 2nd, them formerly met that i cannot doubt about met a plus sign for federal job. stop the bodies phone, get fall out. there might be some on or somebody with a whole new daily is muscular nationalism may have contributed to a breakdown of talks with docusign. but it is drawn india closer to other countries with similar ideologies like israel. ringback ready ready movie was the 1st engine prime minister to visit the country in 2017 and having a relationship with prime minister benjamin up in yahoo that you are the one need to for being able to sustain. however, if you can get is in relationship goes beyond the personal connections between the 2. need a is in the 2nd largest supply of military equipment to india. for observers, it's unsurprising. the 2 majority of the nation should have such a close relationship. but hindu nationalism is not the only driving force guiding more the, the foreign policy. it's also driven by pragmatism, the best example of which is the remarkable outreach to the most claim ad. it was a vision known in indian foreign policy circles as west asia no other indian veto has engaged with ad of lead us, quite like movie has in 2019 saw the abs crown prince m b s moment been says mom was warmly to see the new denny, the size of the scandal of the motor saw the journalist jump on control, was dismembered, reported me on the order of in the then that of relations with the united out of them, of that movie has visited the country 7 times more than any indian leader before him, president obama bins i had known as m b. that was movie his brother and was key and approving the building of i came to temple in that. would that be a better some say, but i say you got higher? omitted that feet, highness, see mama when diet. but a deep investment in building a relationship with the ad it was has at times being taken by rising is lama for b, as in india. and how openly senior members of to be, proclaim it in 2022 during a tv discussion b spokesperson made delegate to the mox, about the prophet mohammed. it grew widespread and they had condemnation from not just out of nations, but most of the majority nations around the world. i think that even the government was not expecting the kind of response that they saw. social media picked it up. it became an off of an issue that a vice presidential trip was got shot abroad. it became enough of an issue that body leaders here were made to deal with, mobilize to speak about the foreign policy aspect of what was essentially seen as a, as a, as a huge speech comment. and i think of the government learned a very strong lesson go by that they called in india foreign policy. and the movie has not been as a government cleans one of unbroken successes that have been sent back as well. let's now turn to the other big claim made by the more the government that they have double charged in the us economy. despite the number of indicators is the most prominent being the assertion that india today is the fastest growing economy in the was indeed it is. india. do it over 8 percent in the last quarter, the highest in the world. it's instructive though, to understand how this has come to be with the 2 fox to this. so one issue is how much of the economy as a whole actually been growing? and the reason we have the fastest growing is because we have the biggest slump during go with 19. okay, so in trenton, trenton area, one of the west kids economy. and we have recovered from that. so of course, best for the recovery means if you're giving back to your previous line, then it's going to be faster than others. but the 2nd part of it is actually probably more important. it's a very good ship recovery, i think on it really it's been confined to the top 20 percent of the population at the most, which has been doing very well. but on the other hand, the rest of the economy and the major part of the population is doing was i would say the numbers back to some reason. so we found inequality in india. is it a 100 year high, with the top one percent owning 40 percent of the national with the government teams, the benefits of growth are not limited to the wealthy, but that is trickling down, lifting millions out of poverty many more than in the past hour. okay. not a this i dog walk up sims wednesday. i'm gonna be mighty to try to go fuck it off a bit. go to the same book, be your, did get these values. so what the government has done is that it's changed how it is going to define poverty. it's using one multi dimensional poverty measure, which is chevy. se problematic, and which is designed to suggest that less and less people up what we have a very, very large number of florida and all those kinds of data are telling us that not only do we still have a very large number of income for, but other kinds of over d, like football it to me will be increasing. so there's no, you know, data which is, you know, being human which is being created by that going to make, okay, it is the data that is flowing from the ground level and it is be calculated and just being present to the people we input the more the government does not want the height anything but it's the government is not hiding the bad news and fall with the is declining. why some us is the more the government expending district major was announced during the call with brent demick. like extra rations to the poor russian. decide these contradictions, the government has gone on a major handouts pretty, not just for greens, for 3 or subsidized cooking gas cylinders, houses, and toilets. a big talking point, a hit of elections. while many of the benefits are not new economists of map how the scale of the distribution has spiked off, the movie came to bob. increasingly using digital payment price line for more efficient delivery experts have a name for it new instead of the where the government moves away from its traditional role of providing education and health. and instead focuses on quick fix benefits for immediate political gain. and it's very hard to make changes in the delivery of education, delivery of health care, and see the changes happening in a short while and to get credit for that. so what you're do, whether you focus instead on, you know, what in this country are called freebies, you and handouts direct benefit strong. so then what's important is those have become much more efficient to date. when i send you a 1000 rupees a month, it reaches you, that's the beauty of the digitalization off the benefits transfer that has happened in this country. the downside of that is it's much easier for me to do that then to improve your school's or to improve your health care. and especially when i could put my photo on the front page, newspaper adds, thing i give you the 1000 rupees, or i give you a, you know, free gas or subsidize gas. i get the benefit as the leader of the parking deleted. if the poppy is front and center of many is the government's pro poor schemes. more these images printed on bags of free food rations. when fe, policies bear his title in the name, a low cost housing scheme is called the b and i lost you. it's not the schemes of transport gas the farm us be, i'm guess on a steam to open know for those bank accounts being junk 10 yards, not a small loan scheme. the pm would that i, you know, it's not an insurance scheme called the i used one product bmw, john, r o get you, it's not platinum understood it is, you know, a kind of unifying fact. them for the concrete diamond instead, is elected majority to lee and you say anything fact that's a display minister movie to model after 10 years or 15 years, there might be many, many nameless test would be coming and going, right. the opposition disagrees. they say the multi branded handouts, i meant to bolster the product of the prime minister and dollars more to the anger against the government's failure. like a lack of decent job for the ways of educated young indians entering the workforce every. the videos of the legal binding of thousands of young men and women. many of them college graduates joined all night for openings for government, school teachers, and police constable. these are not isolated instances, according to a recent survey by the international labor organization in guest educated youth make up more than 65 percent of the total number of unemployed in the country. so in fact, you'