Noting that the world today is still significantly ‘Western’ in terms of its intellectual concepts, traditions, and construct, External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar on Saturday laid emphasis on strengthening Indian strategic culture and devoting more energies to native knowledge and traditions to create international relations with Indian characteristics.

“Is it not necessary that we actually devote more time, attention, and energies to look at our reservoir of culture, knowledge, history and traditions,” said Mr Jaishankar while speaking at the International Relations Conference 2023 with the theme of ‘India’s Strategic Culture: Addressing Global and Regional Challenges’ here at Symbiosis Institute in Pune.

Addressing the event, S Jaishankar said, “The world is still significantly Western in terms of its intellectual concepts, traditions, and construct. When we say Western, a large part of it is actually British, because, in the last 250 years, among the Western powers, the British…were an extensive empire”.

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