The best is yet to come.

Germany and India have been bonding under a mutually beneficial relationship for a very long time. Both the nations share a very harmonious and wonderfully great relationship which definitely needs to be taken up ahead.

Now as Mr Narendra Modi, the current Prime Minister of the nation, is supposed to portray amicability and sophistication towards India’s current partners, Germany can be a great spot for Mr. Modi. Due to lack of attention being provided in the past by the previous government, the exemplary pace at which the relationship between the two countries was progress forwards was unfortunately slowed down but now with the new government in centre, which has already started it’s international campaign, it is now expected that Mr. Modi will leave no stone unturned in consoling one of the best friends India has ever had in its history, for good.

Germany for a very long has been a resplendent partner of India in many operations around the world. For machines to military both India and Germany have helped each other a lot and this is pellucid from the profound relationship that both the countries share. Even today, Germany continues to be of great help to India and vice versa. There are many marvellous achievements that both the nations have secured and I believe that the best is yet to come.    

The bilateral relationship between the two countries has achieved a lot in the past. The beautiful relationship that these two countries, Republic of India and Federal Republic of Germany share is truly prepossessing, envy for nations around the world. To understand the deepness and proximity in the feelings of both the nations, we need to jump back to the time of World War II. India was the first nation to end war against Germany and for better, unlike all the other nations, India waived all of its rights to give punishment to Germany and asking for compensation and this led to the foundation of the Indo-German relationships. From then on India became trade partner to the East Germany and West Germany and was one the staunchest supporters of the unification of Berlin in the year 1990 and from the saga of the beautifully crafted relationship between both the great countries with rich civilization and heritage continues.

Contemporarily Germany continues to be biggest trading partner of India in the whole of Europe. Germany is currently the eighth largest foreign investor in India and during the period 2000-2012 it’s FDI totalled 5.2 Billion USD comprising of 3% of the total FDI of whole of the nation. Germany is also a prominent supporter of India in various other fields too.  Germany contributed much to the development in the erection of IIT, Madras after governments of both the nation signed a treaty to help each other advance further in the field of science and technology.  Germany also continues to be the 5^th largest trade partner of India. In the year 2010, the trade volume between the two countries scaled up to €30 billion. Both the countries also enjoy huge cooperation from each other in engineering, telecommunication, food processing, pharmaceuticals and environment technology. Currently Germany and India both, are helping each other in fighting against terrorism and Germany has also supported India’s waiver from Nuclear Suppliers Group to trade nuclear materials and energy.  In 2008, the Indian Navy and the German Navy conducted joint exercises for the first time, following a defence co-operation agreement between the two nations signed in 2006.  India has so far launched seven German satellites into Polar orbits since 1999.

All this shows the depth of the relationship between the two countries and also expresses the need to move ahead taking this relationship forward with great power and prowess and now I can expect that Mr. Modi can do it all for better.

Jai Hind, Jai Bharat

Jai Ma Bharti