India, June 17 -- Modi's historic visit to Slovakia is a strategic signal that India's engagement with the world is growing wider, deeper and considerably more purposeful

When Prime Minister Modi stepped off the plane in Bratislava, the occasion was about far more than exchanging pleasantries across a negotiating table. It was about staking out a vision - of an India that is quietly but purposefully embedding itself into the sinews of European geopolitics, not through headline-grabbing rhetoric, but through the unglamorous yet essential work of building frameworks, forging alliances and finding common ground.

Upgrading India-Slovakia ties to a "Comprehensive Partnership" might look routine. It is not. For three decades, the two countrie...