A Reading of Dr. S. Jaishankar's The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World

Dr. S. Jaishankar's 'The India Way' puts into perspective the evident anti-Globalisation and rising Nationalism(s) around the world. In doing this it highlights the growing multi-polarity that the world order is experiencing. The book, in my opinion, tries to position Indian Nationalism in the context of the globalization discourse by drawing on India's civilizational nature of 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam' and in it exploring the combination of Globalisation and Nationalism which would otherwise be an oxymoron, given the western understandings of the respective terms. 

The incumbent Indian Foreign Minister goes on to explore Nationalism(s) and how the term could mean different things for different Nations - I believe our Minister's diplomatic career is to a great extent revealed in his assessment of Nationalism. Of the many thoughts that I have read on the idea of Nations and Nationalism(s), his is probably one of the least radical thoughts that I have come across. 

Last but not the least, I did understand one thing from the book though, the Indian nation, at least at the level of its policymakers is ready to depart from the utopian assumptions of only partnering with certain ideological states and is ready for transactional actions for the greater good and larger benefit of fellow Indians and I think that's a pragmatic development.