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“India punches below its weight, failing to achieve what it could and should be doing”, writes John Elliot in his book Implosion: India’s Tryst with Reality, wondering why a nation with a population of over a billion people, abundant natural resources and an ancient culture is hobbled “with declining economic performance, poor governance and endemic corruption”. Running well through the nuclear tests in 1998, India’s long-standing aspiration to the status of great power through a totemic United Nations Security Council (UNSC) permanent membership came recently to the fore once again.
Trouble is, the UN, as a multilateral institution, post Cold War, lapsed into insignificance in the face of a Read More