DC Edit | Will Modi's peacemaker role help over Ukraine?

India, as a well-meaning mediator, ready to play the honest broker for peace was acknowledged by both the Russian and Ukrainian Presidents when Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to both leaders whose countries are at war. India's neutral position on the war in Ukraine after the Russian invasion of February 2022 and its delivery of humanitarian aid to Ukraine may have seemed to have been at odds with the position of the West, which has supplied weapons while committing massive financial aid. That neutrality, allied with its place in history as a peace seeking nation, may have led to the…