Director General, Manohar Parrikar IDSA, Amb Sujan R. Chinoy’s opinion piece ‘4,399 days and beyond, the defining pillars of the Modi era’ has been published in ‘The Indian Express’ on 11 June 2026.
In the early years after Independence, Nehru played a major role in promoting Afro-Asian solidarity at global fora such as the Asian Relations Conference and the Bandung Conference. Modi has interpreted early concepts like non-alignment and Afro-Asian solidarity in a more dynamic manner, imbued with a more expansive vision about strategic autonomy, atmanirbharta and vasudhaiva kutumbakam (the world as a family) at the global level, writes Amb Chinoy.