India, Nov. 30 -- On the eve of the visit of President Vladamir Putin to India, it is essential to understand the post western order of not unipolarity, or bipolarity, but multipolarity and changing multi-alignments. On 21 October, Vladimir Putin called the shot in the global balance of power by testing the Burevestnik nuclear-powered long-range cruise missile. The test meant far more than its technological capabilities. It was a message wrapped in aerospace engineering. It loudly declared that the era of unilateral coercion, which has dominated global politics since the end of the Cold War, is ending. Not because someone wishes it to end, but because the illusion of permanent western dominance has cracked. The test reminded us that writi...