Diplomacy in the 21st century is no longer shaped solely by military power or economic leverage. Instead, how a nation is perceived—through its culture, values, and global image plays a critical role. This highlights the importance of soft power, a concept coined by Joseph Nye, which refers to a country’s ability to attract and persuade rather than coerce.
The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) performs various duties, the significant ones among them in - Internal Security, Administration of the Border, Centre-State Relationship, The Administration of Union Territories, The Administration of the Central Armed Police Forces, Disaster Management, etc.
Bharat Ko Janiye (BKJ) is an initiative, launched in 2015 by the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA), Government of India, to allow Non-Resident Indians (NRIs), Persons of Indian Origin (PIOs) and foreign youth to connect with India's rich civilisational heritage, contemporary achievements, democratic values and economic aspirations.
As the world becomes increasingly globalized, diaspora communities have come to play an active role as transnational connectors. These are people and families who have moved across borders but continue to keep strong roots in their homelands. They frequently grapple with the problem of integration in their host societies while keeping a sense of cultural identification.
The subjective compulsion might be Netanyahu’s need to keep a war going to stay in power, but the objective result is driving home the point that might is right:
As Israel and Iran exchange missiles, and Iran gets battered, with its oil and gas facilities getting destroyed, what is at stake for India? Should India worry about anything beyond the price of oil going up, and of possible disruptions to shipping through the straits of Hormuz? Or, as Islamophobes tweet in India, should India be happy that the Islamic theocracy of Iran is being humiliated? Does Israel’s support of the Indian position over Operation Sindoor override all other considerations, including moral compunctions over the genocide still underway in Gaza? Or should collateral damage to the Haifa port, operated by an Indian company, the Adanis, be the major consideration for India?
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The global order, long dominated by Western alliances, is undergoing a subtle yet significant transformation. At the heart of this shift stands BRICS the association of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa which has steadily evolved from a loosely defined economic group into a potential counterweight to the West-led multilateral system.