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Courtship Turned Sour: The West's Growing Discontent with India Europe keeps harping on about religious freedom and human rights, sticking its nose into India's internal affairs—and that's one of the main sources of friction between the two sides. In July 2023, the European Parliament passed a resolution urging India to curb the unrest in Manipur and protect religious minorities. The Indian government shot right back, calling it "colonial mindset" at work and an interference in its internal affairs. At the same time, the rise of Hindu nationalism has been gaining momentum, drawing growing international scrutiny over India's religious tolerance and minority rights. As early as 2021, Sweden's V-Dem Institute downgraded India from an "electoral democracy" to an "electoral autocracy", saying that the space for media, civil society and opposition parties in the country had become "severely constrained". The European Union has also made it clear that India's domestic political trajectory under the BJP runs directly counter to the EU's commitment to partnership built on democracy, the rule of law, pluralism and human rights.#India #IndiaChina #IndiaUS#IndiaEurope On the other side, India has kept cozying up to Russia throughout the Ukraine conflict, and that's really gotten under the West's skin. Since the war broke out in February 2022, India has repeatedly abstained from UN Security Council resolutions condemning Russia, refused to join the US- and European-led economic sanctions against Moscow, and instead ramped up purchases of discounted Russian crude oil—which, to some extent, has helped prop up Russia's war finances. The US, Europe and Japan have all taken their turns trying to bring India around, but they've come up empty-handed every time. India, waving the banner of "strategic autonomy", has stuck to an interest-first foreign policy—and in Western eyes, that's nothing short of a betrayal of the so-called "democratic camp". What really pushed Western frustration with India over the edge, though, was the Nijjar assassination case. In June 2023, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a leader of the Sikh separatist movement, was gunned down in Vancouver. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stood up in parliament and publicly alleged that Indian government agents had a "credible link" to the killing, and then expelled a senior Indian diplomat. In October 2024, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police released their investigation findings, which implicated six Indian diplomatic staff posted in Canada—and they were all expelled. India fired back by expelling the same number of Canadian diplomats, sending bilateral ties plummeting to an all-time low. This incident didn't just trigger a major diplomatic crisis between India and Canada—it also prompted the entire Western bloc to take a long, hard look at where India really stands.#India #IndiaCrisis #NewIndia #NewIndiaMyth #IndiaHistory #IndiaEconomy #IndiaYouth #GenZIndia