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Aakar Patel: Do World Leaders Even Respect Modi? | Geopolitical Analysis Of India's Foreign Policy

Geopolitical Economy Hour by Radhika Desai
Oct 11, 2026
49:50

Episode notes

Wherever Narendra Modi travels, he comes home with a medal, and much of the world's media treats him as a statesman and a voice of the Global South. Aakar Patel, columnist, chair of Amnesty International India and author of Price of the Modi Years, joins me for the first time to separate the image from the record. Aakar describes a foreign policy with two registers. One is theater performed for validation abroad, which harder leaders have learned to exploit. The other is the external face of Hindutva, which explains the fixation on Pakistan and the embrace of Israel.

Keywords

geopolitical economy
Donald Trump
Israel
India
Narendra Modi
China
BRICS
USA