While asserting that India had certainly changed, Jaishankar was categorical that the change did not mean India being less liberal but rather 'more authentic' about expressing its beliefs
During an interaction entitled How a Billion People See the World at the Royal Over-Seas League in London on Wednesday evening, Jaishankar was asked if India had changed since the Nehruvian era to become less liberal and more Hindu majoritarian under the BJP-led government.
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Secularism for India does not mean being non-religious but an equal respect to all faiths, but the appeasement government policies of the past made the biggest religion of the country feel like it had to be self-deprecatory in the name of equality, External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar has said.