All the major rivers in south India are sourced in the Western Ghats, the chain of hills running along the west coast of India.

India is approaching. The first African countries coming into the Western box, and we get a lot a new neighbors.

And when it comes to preserving national face, Russia and India are perhaps touchier than most countries Russia has always felt looked down upon by western European powers, and India is still reckoning with a legacy of colonial humiliation.

And yet India, like so many other countries, maintains its NAM membership, because NAM does provide an additional platform, which India needs and treats as one tool among others in its diplomatic toolkit. Occasionally, NAM provides a useful counterweight to Western pressure say, regarding Iran, with which India remains eager to build trade and energy relationships.

Russia is probably in recession, owing largely to Western sanctions imposed in response to its intervention in Ukraine. India has been suffering from a depreciating currency and soaring public debts.

Throughout its history, my country has been fortunate enough to be exposed to and has accepted  various civilizations, such as those from China and India and, in modern times, Western civilization.

Manufacturing workers and high tech professionals alike in Europe and America are being challenged by global competition. Western consumers who call a local company are likely to speak to someone in India.

Even Western friendly governments including Brazil, India, South Africa, and Israel were not prepared to take sides. The Indian journalist Indrani Bagchi referred to the abstentions as a new form of non alignment.

In reality, machinations by the intelligence agencies also played a part. The military had developed an entrenched distrust of her, given her position as a popularly supported pro Western leader who wanted peace with India.

TRIVANDRUM, INDIA It is fashionable these days, particularly in the West, to speak of India and China in the same breath. These are the two big countries said to be taking over the world, the new contenders for global eminence after centuries of Western domination, the Oriental answer to generations of Occidental economic success.

It's going towards India, not from India.

Amphetamine drugs produced in eastern Burma seem to be transported with such ease that significant quantities have been found in northeast India, on Burma s western border. That, together with the heroin that is trafficked from Burma to India, China, Thailand, and other countries in the region, poses a serious threat to our political and economic security.

Western Asia

Western Asia

Western Brigade

Western Brigade

Indeed, as Sibal points out, NAM did not protect India from decades of US Western technology related sanctions, even when it was the movement s leader. Likewise, in the 1962 conflict with China, NAM did not back India s position.

Here India has been slow to join the struggle for influence. Its prime minister has visited the country, but without a clear plan of engagement, even though developing western Myanmar would boost the economy of India s border region.

Current office holders are Chairperson Mr. Justice V.S. Dave (India) Vice Chairperson Dr. P.N. Mishra (India) Secretary Mr. Sharad Joshi (India) Treasurer Ms. Aparna Sahay (India).

But it would be a mistake to assume that the reemergence of so called XXL powers like China and India will simply bring a continuation of Western traditions. We will have to deal with a different type of superpower.

The second point of convergence between Indian and Western interests is one that will probably get no public mention during Chirac s visit India can perhaps serve as a counterweight to China. The world is beginning to notice that India has nearly the same number of people as China, plus a more benign system of government and no designs on its neighbors.

India

India

India

India

Nor do the other ancient motives for Western interference apply any longer. The UK no longer needs to protect its trade routes to colonial India, and the US no longer needs a ring of military bases to contain the Soviet Union.

With the world demand for oil surging, particularly from China and India, oil prices rose and economic growth continued in 2004 in the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) region (except for conflict zones) for the second consecutive year.

This is India coming up, with the first data from India.

Morocco claimed a right to Western Sahara yet Western Sahara was not Moroccan, it was Saharan.

Western Politics Locust Years

Reviving Georgia s Western Dream

Western Europe and other

OF WESTERN THRACE, GREECE

The picture on India is the Dharavi slum of Mumbai in India.

Okay, India.

India Pakistan.

Abstaining India

Against India

Against India

Abstaining India

India. Indus.

Okay, India.

India IND

India, Israel.

India, Pakistan.