For India To Be Strong, Indians Must Kindly Adjust

Somnath Mukherjee
Apr 29, 2026 | 20:58 IST

Country needs time to build up domestic capacities, till then reduce dependence on those ‘perfect’ imports



For the first time since 1945, the world seems caught up in whirlpools of hot geopolitical contests. Instead of the neat cleavage (between Allies and Axis powers) in 1945, there are echoes of 1914, when disparate political disputes got triggered when Archduke Franz Ferdinand fell to Gavrilo Princip’s bullets at Sarajevo.
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