As Dommaraju Gukesh got up from his chair, both arms raised and a beaming smile, the moment felt timeless. The raucous cheers from the crowd only amplified the significance of his epochal triumph.
Gukesh, 18, was crowned the youngest world champion in the history of chess, quelling Ding Liren in the 2024 FIDE World Championship in Singapore—an occasion that took India's soft power to new heights.
Since the turn of the century, the country has expanded its global influence in more ways than one, with yoga, art, sport, cinema and food (with several Michelin star Indian chefs) all contributing to it.
Yoga, in fact, is often described as the biggest export from India, with hundreds of thousands of people today practising it around the world. Popularised globally by yoga gurus such as BKS Iyengar, it got a day to its name on December 11, 2014, when the United Nations General Assembly declared June 21 as the International Day of Yoga following a suggestion by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his UN address and a subsequent draft resolution introduced by India's permanent representative to the UN.
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