S. Jaishankar, Why Bharat Matters

The book is an insightful and a cogent examination of Bharat's increasing global prominence and the crafting of its foreign policy is explained in the book titled Why Bharat Matters: Dr. S. Jaishankar. It is a book in which the turn to a more realistic mode of thought that is characterized by interest post 2014 rather than a past idealism is evident. The book is a compilation of eleven interconnected essays, where each essay explains the countries position in the world in a simple manner. Using diplomacy, world politics, history, philosophy, and his own life, he gives a powerful and clear vision of India that is not afraid to secure its position in the world among many great countries in these essays. Even cross-cultural amalgamation of civilizational wisdom is present in this book: The philosophy of statecraft of the period of The Ramayana, Mahabharata, and Arthashastra of Kautilya with the present day statecraft within the frame of Bharat, both ancient and modern, a world powerhouse. It can be the way India treats China, it can be a reconsideration of past decisions, it can be the changing of the security paradigm, but always with the understanding that the foreign policy will be beneficial to the Indian people in a concrete way. It is an artwork that brings to focus developing trust and duties of India to establish a more inclusive and equal world order. It is a wise and strategic vision of the new relationship of India with the rest of the world and a reflection on how Indian foreign policy has become more proactive, realistic and nationalist today than it was yesterday as being reactive and idealistically minded. It represents the shift in the previous decades when India saw the world mostly through the prism of the postulates of sovereignty and freedom and the equality of countries into the situation where India views the world through the prism of its own interests, values, and vision of the multipolar and equitable international order.