Dangers ahead

March 07, 2022 13:12

"India needs to be careful in all this horse-trading and tightrope walking as Vladimir Putin invokes nuclear power to undo Mikhail Gorbachev's handiwork and push back history.

"Trying to prevent a special session of the United Nations General Assembly to discuss the crisis is hardly the way to ensuring that Ukraine's ambassador there will jump up from his seat to embrace India's representative as he did Singapore's.

"It would have been different if India had been prepared to confront the United States of America over NATO's eastward march and the coup that toppled Ukraine's democratically elected president but such candour isn't India's diplomatic style."

India may not pull off its tightrope walk on Ukraine, writes Sunanda K. Datta-Ray. Read the column here.

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