New Delhi:
United States Ambassador to India Eric Garcetti lauded the relations between New Delhi and Washington and stressed that both the countries should work more strongly on co-development and serve as a ‘model’ for the world. Needed
He also said that relations between India and America are not just ‘additive relations’ but ‘qualitative relations’.
The US envoy was speaking at the US India Business Council event in the national capital on Tuesday.
Speaking at the event, Garcetti said, “The way we look at each other’s culture, it’s more of an additive relationship, it’s not India versus America, it’s India times America… .There is a multiplicative relationship.” ,
Explaining the difference between co-production and co-development while emphasizing the importance of aligning needs and interests, the envoy said, “We must be clear with our terms. Co-production is not the same as co-development . we need this.” Make sure, when we are considering co-evolution, we are not just doing it for the sake of it. Something that India and its military needs, and something that the US needs, and where do those circles intersect? And how soon can we consider this co-evolution…and become a model for the world?”
He further referred to ancient Indian texts and said that much of what is taught today was discovered in India centuries ago.
“Our goal is not to wage war. In the Rig Veda, Indra, the most powerful god, is the god of thunder and, in many ways, also the god of war. We knew the power and you could feel the power of it,” Garcetti said. “The kind of primitive creation of the Earth that arose from conflict.”
The American envoy also explained in detail the concept of ‘war’ described in ‘Mahabharata’ and ‘Arthashastra’.
“There are two traditions in India. One is that war in the Mahabharata was something exciting, serious, but also a game, even a religious duty. We know this very well. And when we were not as civilized as Today, the ambassador said, “every culture accepts the necessity of war as places are conquered, people suffer, histories found that have never been written.”
He further added, “But there is another school of thought, ‘Arthashastra’, which clearly states that ‘war is a continuation of politics by other means’, 200 years ago, we studied in our colleges, as in A lot of the discoveries were actually made here in India first.”
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