India is such a big country that just our existence is of relevance to the world. India’s arrival is loudly proclaimed at all global fora, not least by our own leaders. But the truth is that if you look at global politics right now, without the blinkers of our propaganda, India is actually risking a slide into irrelevance, an unserious country that is a victim of its own myth-making. It is palpably clear just how irrelevant India is to much of the world’s consciousness. We are so much in the grip of a feel-good anecdote that we cannot measure the...