Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the Ghanaian Parliament during his ongoing five-nation tour was not just diplomacy in action. It was a reality check for a world that has too long underestimated India’s civilizational weight and global potential. When he asserted that a strong India is good for the world, he wasn’t indulging in hyperbole. He was articulating a truth rooted in history, logic, and moral clarity — a truth the West, China, and certain power brokers must now confront. Let’s put this in perspective. India is the world’s oldest unbroken civilisation, not merely a country cobbled together by colonial cartographers. Its spiritual foundations, built on Sanatan Dharma, gave the world the philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam — “the world is one family.” It’s not a slogan. It’s a lived ethos. India has never invaded another nation in 10,000 years of recorded history. It did not colonise, enslave, or plunder others for resources, unlike Europe, the United States, China, or the Islamic caliphates of yesteryear. Instead, India was itself colonised — first by Islamic invaders, then by the British. Its temples were destroyed, its scholars butchered, its institutions razed, and its economic wealth looted. Yet, despite centuries of forced conversions, persecution, and cultural assault, India’s civilizational soul survived. Hinduism — or more accurately, Sanatan Dharma — still commands the faith of nearly 80% of its population, a feat no other ancient civilisation can claim. Compare that to the United Kingdom, which has seen Christianity fade and mosques outnumber churches in several districts. Or to Iran, Egypt, or Afghanistan, where pre-Islamic cultures have been completely erased. And yet, despite this brutal historical baggage, India did not emerge angry or expansionist. It did not retaliate with violence or vengeance. Instead, it chose democracy, pluralism, and peaceful development. It gave refuge to persecuted Jews, Parsis, Tibetans, and even Ahmadiyya Muslims shunned by Islamic nations.
So yes — when Modi says India’s rise is good for the world, it’s not empty rhetoric. A civilizational power that believes the world is one family will act very differently from those that see the globe as turf to be conquered. Now contrast this with the geopolitical hypocrisy of those who claim to be global “guardians of peace.” The United States — India’s so-called “strategic partner” — has consistently played a double game. It declares India a key ally in the Indo-Pacific while simultaneously pouring billions in military aid to Pakistan, a failed state and global exporter of jihad. Worse, it turns a blind eye when Pakistan shelters terrorists like Hafiz Saeed and Masood Azhar, whose hands are stained with Indian blood. China, meanwhile, cloaked in its Belt and Road imperialism, is trying to encircle India through debt-trap diplomacy. It funds infrastructure in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir, violating Indian sovereignty, while arming the very state actors that destabilise South Asia. And yet, it lectures the world on peace? Even worse, internal saboteurs within India — ideological leftovers of the Nehruvian era — are complicit in weakening the nation. For 70 years, they whitewashed Islamic and colonial atrocities, undermined Hindu identity, and fanned identity politics that have stifled national unity. The partition of 1947 wasn’t an accident — it was a calculated betrayal engineered by those who falsely claimed to stand for secularism and national unity. Now, as India asserts itself — economically, militarily, and diplomatically — these very forces tremble. Why? Because a strong, self-assured India upsets their carefully calibrated world order. It threatens China’s authoritarian model. It exposes Western double standards. And it humiliates Islamic nations that cannot match India’s pluralism, innovation, or economic heft despite trillions in oil wealth. Ironically, many in the Indian diaspora — especially in the United States — who built their fortunes off India’s education system and cultural ethos, now back woke forces and political lobbies that demonise their motherland. These NRIs must ask themselves: is it not treachery to feed the hand that once nourished you? Thus far, the world must understand this: India’s rise is inevitable. Its civilizational values are not just relevant — they are desperately needed in a fractured, polarised global order. A weak India only empowers terror states, expansionist tyrannies, and ideological radicals. A strong India, rooted in Dharma, benefits not just Indians, but the entire world. The sooner the world realises this, the better.
