{"id":218378,"date":"2022-12-14T18:45:27","date_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=218378"},"modified":"2022-12-14T18:45:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-14T13:15:27","slug":"a-resource-crunch-need-not-hurt-our-soft-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-resource-crunch-need-not-hurt-our-soft-power\/","title":{"rendered":"A resource crunch need not hurt our soft power"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201c<strong>A resource crunch need not hurt our soft power\u201d <\/strong>published in <strong>Live Mint<\/strong>\u00a0on\u00a0<strong>14<sup>th<\/sup> December 2022<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 International Relations<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relevance: <\/strong><strong>ways to utilize India\u2019s soft power<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>News: <\/strong>The parliamentary committee on external affairs has tabled the report titled <strong>\u201cIndia\u2019s Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy: Prospects &amp; Limitations\u201d<\/strong>. The report contains recommendations on ways to utilize India\u2019s soft powers along with conventional diplomacy.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>What are the key findings of the report?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>There has not been an adequate attempt from the government despite having a vast number of soft resources (fine and performing arts, literature, cuisine, traditional medicine, etc.) towards fulfilling policy goals.<\/p>\n<p>The reports highlighted various reasons behind this such as <strong>lack of inter-ministerial coordination and resources.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What can be the way ahead?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>India\u2019s G20 presidency is a great opportunity to showcase its soft power to the world. India also faces a shortage of funds to utilize its soft resources. Therefore, the following options can be adopted as an alternative \u2013<\/p>\n<p><strong>First,<\/strong> India is the world\u2019s largest democracy. Therefore, its soft power should not be limited to sharing only election best-practices. It should also extend to sharing of other better practices such as the <strong>framework of democratic institutions<\/strong> which counter-balance executive overreach.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second,<\/strong> <strong>private sectors<\/strong> should be involved to fill the gaps left by official agencies. This includes the involvement of <strong>India Inc<\/strong> to partner with the government in sharing India\u2019s inexhaustible talent pool with the rest of the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article\u00a0\u201cA resource crunch need not hurt our soft power\u201d published in Live Mint\u00a0on\u00a014th December 2022. Syllabus: GS 2 \u2013 International Relations Relevance: ways to utilize India\u2019s soft power News: The parliamentary committee on external affairs has tabled the report titled \u201cIndia\u2019s Soft Power and Cultural Diplomacy: Prospects &amp;&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/a-resource-crunch-need-not-hurt-our-soft-power\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A resource crunch need not hurt our soft power<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1230,9],"tags":[212,10501],"class_list":["post-218378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-9-pm-daily-articles","category-public","tag-gs-paper-2","tag-live-mint","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700804487,"cached_date":1704879281},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}