The making of India

M. R. Dua

Vyjayantimala Bali Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been striving to push India’s voice at international fora, announcing that ‘our time has come.’ Author backs Modi’s this cautiouslysounded signal -- ‘Now it is India’s turn. And we know that our time has come.’ He made this call at the ASEAN meeting in Kuala Lumpur on November 21, 2015.
Earlier, his predecessor, Manmohan Singh, too had vociferated at an international meet on October 30, 2007, thus: ’I’m confident that our time has come. India’s all set to regain its due place in the comity of nations.’ The very title of the book seems to have been inspired by two prime ministers.
The book’s main theme is to educate and inform American and British audiences of India’s ‘confident quest for global prominence’ and recognition. Ayres’s competently authored and appropriately documented analyses vindicate voices of both prime ministers.
Ayresa, senior diplomat in the Obama administration, was incharge of the desk overseeing American concerns in India, Pakistan, and South Asia. Currently, she’s a senior fellow with Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations. While it’s a common impression that most foreign writers, particularly the Americans and the British, are highly critical of India’s slow progress despite being a free market economy and the world’s largest democracy.
Ayres’s book is well -balanced and robust in presentation of facts and figures. It supports India’s enhanced global status in every area of human endeavour— economic, political, diplomatic and other assorted global affairs.
The book argues that being one of the fastest growing free economies, India has the strongest case for being ‘counted’ among the world’s major powers. The author remarks: ‘A strong, powerful India in the volatile Indian Ocean region presents a model of economic and democratic success that stands out in contrast to the example set by China, and also creates an Asian balance of power. She supports India’s former envoy to the US Nirupma Rao that ‘India has not got its due on the world stage, despite its size, democracy and accomplishments.’ Ayres adds that India’s immediate aim should be ‘to attain recognition as one of the world’s powers’... ‘a prominent consequential layer in the world affairs.’

ALYSSA AYRES The author splendidly elaborates and explains India’s developmental philosophy and balanced economic success in the nation’s most crucial areas. Ayres also identifies India’s failings, offering ‘recommendations’ to repair and remedy the shortcomings. She forecasts that despite all the progress, ‘India will continue to be preoccupied for decades with struggles at home with poverty and plethora of social issues.’ She concludes that ‘India will remain less and less reticent about its global ambitions,’ and opines that being ‘home to the largest number of the poor, is how the world still stereotypes India despite many of its achievements.’ Prime Minister Modi, well into

The book argues that being one of the fastest growing free economies, India has the strongest case for being ‘counted’ among the world’s major powers. The author remarks: ‘A strong, powerful India, in the volatile Indian Ocean region, presents a model of economic and democratic success that stands out in contrast to the example set by China, and also creates an Asian balance of power.’

the last phase of his first five-year term (2014-2019),has been striving hard to maintain the growth tempo pushing India to advance from its current position of being world’s fifth fastest growing economy to the third position. Still India’s pace of progress seems to be slow, but sure.
However, Ayres admires the Modi government’s ‘focus on India’s external relations... resolute steps toward economic reform...economic growth... foreign investment, and India’s visibility as a country that wants to play a greater role in shaping the world... India is now setting its sights more on power.’
Meanwhile, according to a survey by Bruce Stokes, researcher of the American Pew Research Center, states : Modi government’s 87 per cent approval rating has been dipping fast as the 2019 general elections approach.
The book abounds with munificent encomiums and rich tributes for the present Modi regime. The last chapter titled ‘How the United States Should Work with a Rising India,’ is an excellent proof of this statement. It’s an extremely sophisticated, superb panegyric commendation of the author for the Modi government as the ruling BJP’s avarice for a second win in the 2019-2024 mounts by the day.
The author, who’s married to a New York-based reputed Indian- American journalist-author, sclaims over 25-year association with India since her student days through her work at the Asia Society; and a stint at the US embassy in India.
Ayres’s scholarly thesis entitled “Indian foreign policy history until 1990s” is considered as a singular contribution to the literature on study of international relations.



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India’s all set to regain its due place in the comity of nations.’ The very title of the book seems to have been inspired by two prime ministers. The book’s main theme is to educate and inform American and British audiences of India’s ‘confident quest for global prominence’ and recognition. Ayres’s competently authored and appropriately documented analyses vindicate voices of both prime ministers. Ayresa, senior diplomat in the Obama administration, was incharge of the desk overseeing American concerns in India, Pakistan, and South Asia. Currently, she’s a senior fellow with Washington-based Council on Foreign Relations. While it’s a common impression that most foreign writers, particularly the Americans and the British, are highly critical of India’s slow progress despite being a free market economy and the world’s largest democracy. Ayres’s book is well -balanced and robust in presentation of facts and figures. It supports India’s enhanced global status in every area of human endeavour— economic, political, diplomatic and other assorted global affairs. The book argues that being one of the fastest growing free economies, India has the strongest case for being ‘counted’ among the world’s major powers. The author remarks: ‘A strong, powerful India in the volatile Indian Ocean region presents a model of economic and democratic success that stands out in contrast to the example set by China, and also creates an Asian balance of power. She supports India’s former envoy to the US Nirupma Rao that ‘India has not got its due on the world stage, despite its size, democracy and accomplishments.’ Ayres adds that India’s immediate aim should be ‘to attain recognition as one of the world’s powers’... ‘a prominent consequential layer in the world affairs.’ ALYSSA AYRES The author splendidly elaborates and explains India’s developmental philosophy and balanced economic success in the nation’s most crucial areas. Ayres also identifies India’s failings, offering ‘recommendations’ to repair and remedy the shortcomings. She forecasts that despite all the progress, ‘India will continue to be preoccupied for decades with struggles at home with poverty and plethora of social issues.’ She concludes that ‘India will remain less and less reticent about its global ambitions,’ and opines that being ‘home to the largest number of the poor, is how the world still stereotypes India despite many of its achievements.’ Prime Minister Modi, well into The book argues that being one of the fastest growing free economies, India has the strongest case for being ‘counted’ among the world’s major powers. The author remarks: ‘A strong, powerful India, in the volatile Indian Ocean region, presents a model of economic and democratic success that stands out in contrast to the example set by China, and also creates an Asian balance of power.’ the last phase of his first five-year term (2014-2019),has been striving hard to maintain the growth tempo pushing India to advance from its current position of being world’s fifth fastest growing economy to the third position. Still India’s pace of progress seems to be slow, but sure. However, Ayres admires the Modi government’s ‘focus on India’s external relations... resolute steps toward economic reform...economic growth... foreign investment, and India’s visibility as a country that wants to play a greater role in shaping the world... India is now setting its sights more on power.’ Meanwhile, according to a survey by Bruce Stokes, researcher of the American Pew Research Center, states : Modi government’s 87 per cent approval rating has been dipping fast as the 2019 general elections approach. The book abounds with munificent encomiums and rich tributes for the present Modi regime. The last chapter titled ‘How the United States Should Work with a Rising India,’ is an excellent proof of this statement. It’s an extremely sophisticated, superb panegyric commendation of the author for the Modi government as the ruling BJP’s avarice for a second win in the 2019-2024 mounts by the day. The author, who’s married to a New York-based reputed Indian- American journalist-author, sclaims over 25-year association with India since her student days through her work at the Asia Society; and a stint at the US embassy in India. Ayres’s scholarly thesis entitled “Indian foreign policy history until 1990s” is considered as a singular contribution to the literature on study of international relations.