India's growing heft: The dichotomy between domestic and global opinion

Handicapped without a UN Security Council veto, India can nevertheless become a great power, but what that will entail remains a work in progress, notes T N Ninan

Pew Research tells us that the people in a couple of dozen selected countries think well of India but less well than in the past, and that Narendra Modi scores only about half as well abroad as he does at home, where his popularity is almost off the charts. Going further, about half of those surveyed by Pew feel India has not gained in power or influence in recent years, which is very much a minority view within the country. Some of the dichotomy between domestic and international opinion is to be expected, and some of the takedown implicit in