Anil Kakodkar, former Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, said on Thursday that the country should leverage its strengths and overcome its weaknesses and have a pro-active foreign policy.
He was delivering the inaugural address at the national seminar on “India’s foreign policy orientations” organised by the Department of Geopolitics and International Relations of Manipal University in collaboration with the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies, Kolkata, here.
Dr. Kakodkar said that the country had a reactive foreign policy for long and it had become necessary to study and analyse the future while formulating the policy. It was necessary to involve people from India who had settled abroad. The soft power was large, but it could be bigger, he said. The country needed to grow faster, not just economically but also in the fields of science and technology, he added.