Will India be great power world is expecting?

TELLIS NOTES THAT INDIA’S PURSUIT OF MULTIPOLARITY LEADS IT TOWARD ECLECTIC PARTNERSHIPS WITH INDIVIDUAL COUNTRIES AND GROUPINGS

- HT Correspondent

Two summers ago, veteran India scholar Ashley J Tellis published an essay in Foreign Affairs titled, “America’s Bad Bet on India,” which led to an extended, highly charged debate about the future of the US-India relationship. Just a few weeks ago, Tellis published another big-picture piece in Foreign Affairs titled, “India’s Great-Power Delusions,” which has once again got people talking.

In his new piece, Tellis argues that India is on its way to becoming a great power, but perhaps not the kind of power that many in the world are expecting. Tellis spoke about his latest essay on last week's season finale of Grand Tamasha, a weekly podcast on Indian politics and policy coproduced by HT and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Tellis is well known to the foreign affairs community in India. He holds the Tata Chair for Strategic Affairs at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Previously he served in the US government during the George W Bush administration, where he was intimately involved in negotiating the US-India civil nuclear deal.