Is India ready for prime time?

Eleven months ago this column argued that India’s current two-year tenure at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) would be judged on two criteria: first, whether it can contribute to restoring the council’s effectiveness, and second, whether it can play the great power politics in the world’s most exclusive club to strengthen its national strategic interests (“The security council challenge”, Mint, 18 October). How has India fared? Not as well as had been expected.

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