Shekhar Gupta: India's most potent weapon loses power

A red-hot economy was India's greatest strategic strength. It's diminishing and damaging India's stature, as reflected in responses to Kashmir crisis

India is facing a rising, new strategic threat. It isn’t another brigade the Pakistanis moved to the LoC, or another overly dramatised missile test. It isn’t even some new incursion by the Chinese.

Three things this new threat isn’t. It isn’t military, it doesn’t come from our traditional adversaries, and it doesn’t lurk from across our borders. And here are the three things this new threat is. It is economic, it comes from within, and it threatens to ruin our greatest asset of the past two decades: Global goodwill, the rising “good guy” image in the post-9/11 world, only partly because