“India has of late, chosen to debunk non-alignment in its pursuit of multi-alignment.” Comment.
How the answer moves
The flow snapshot — the routes in, the body, the counter-view and the routes out.
Route 1 non-alignment ≠ withdrawal → Nehru’s “best judgment” → freedom of choice, not equidistance → method changes, idea holds
Route 2 test the verb “debunk” → posture vs principle → grammar of policy shifts, core survives
departure is real: LEMOA/COMCASA, PM absent from NAM summits, Jaishankar’s engage–manage–cultivate–reassure → but neither recent nor complete: Nehru ready to join the side of interest, 1971 Indo-Soviet Treaty, Ganguly’s realist turn after 1962, deepened 1991 → the constant is strategic autonomy: Non-Alignment 2.0 → defining value, “maximum options” → multi-alignment spreads commitments (Quad, BRICS, SCO, Russia) so no partner decides for India → Saran: substance vs posture
Pant → no rigid non-aligned pigeonhole → but the charge lands on NAM as institution and Cold War idiom, not on freedom of judgment → Global South leadership carries it forward
Route 1 “debunk” overstates → Sood → reinterpretation, not abandonment
Route 2 from avoiding sides to maximising options → autonomy is the continuity, alignment only the instrument
Model answer
Handwritten, in the form it would be written in the examination hall.
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