CutTheClutter: How & why India’s GDP, half of Russia’s in 1991, left it long way behind: ‘Irredentism’ & its costs

On a five-day visit to Russia, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar made an interesting comment about the economies of the two allies as he lauded their historical partnership. The Indian economy, which was half of Russia’s in 1991, is now nearly 1.5 times bigger. In Ep 1374 of Cut The Clutter, Editor-in-Chief Shekhar Gupta delves into a 19th-century ideology and its contemporary manifestations to explain how this reversal happened.