Bhandari elected to ICJ: Let's not demonise UK, India wants to be elite too

Nationalist chest-thumping is for lightweights and losers - India is neither

There has been unbridled exultation in India after the election of Dalveer Bhandari to the International Court of Justice. Ravi Shankar Prasad, the country’s law minister, was moved to Tweet “Bharat Mata ki Jai!”

India’s rise in ease of doing business, upgrading of ratings by Moody’s followed by election of Justice #DalveerBhandari at #ICJ where hundreds of countries supported India only reinforces the resurgent India under @narendramodi. Bharat Mata Ki Jai!

— Ravi Shankar Prasad (@rsprasad) November 21, 2017

The normally circumspect Sushma Swaraj, India’s