Love the hectoring by the West on the death of India's standing as a global actor, downgrading of India's democracy etc. etc. because of India voting its own interests at the UN.

Remember in March, 2020, China occupied (disputed) Indian territory and the two Asian giants fought a brief border war. Which western "liberal" Western power supported India? Right, none, other than urging the two powers to sort it out.

The same West for decades has armed Pakistan whose secret services turned Indian cities into regular 9/11 reenactment theaters before the West knew the term 9/11, all with blessings of their CIA and MI6 partners. Bomb blasts in Indian cities would regularly kill hundreds of civilians [3]. They looked the other way even when presented with incontrovertible evidence because Pakistan was key to containing the Soviets.

In 1971, the Pakistani Army unleashed a genocide in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) to contain the freedom movement and killed 300,000 mostly Hindu Bangladeshis. Far from stopping it, the US and the UK dispatched Nuclear armed naval strike forces to defend the Pakistani right to commit genocide. All documented in the famous book by American Diplomat Gary Bass, called "The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide"[1]. He was (famously) fired for protesting American Policy supporting genocide. Just like when the CIA and MI6 got the democratically elected Mosaddegh govt. in Iran deposed in 1954 in favor of the autocratic Shah because the Shah was more suited to their ideologies than the left leaning but democratically elected govt [2].

Indians understand that the West is about liberalism and democracy when it supports their interests and not when it does not. They are just doing what any rational state actor does - using all levers of power and influence to pursue their own interests.

Today, most Indians DGAF what "liberal" democracies in the West think about them, because to them the West is neither liberal nor democratic when it comes to people other than their own kind.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Kissinger-Forgotten-Ge...

[2] https://www.npr.org/2019/01/31/690363402/how-the-cia-overthr...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_terrorist_incidents_in...

This is the subject of an excellent book on Archer Blood:

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Gary-J-Bass/dp/0307744...