The visit of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz to India on October 25 and 26 indicates that India and Germany are finding a special niche for each other. India and Germany do not hold a common world view, notwithstanding the strategic partnership since 2000. On the Ukraine crisis, on China and even on the United States, German levels of distress and discomfort vary from India’s. Despite these, Scholz’s third visit in two years shows that India and Germany have crafted a transformational engagement based on a broad strategic autonomy from issues related to the US, Russia and China. The Indo-German partnership is based on a policy which is strongly bilateral and works beyond their engagements with the big powers. Undoubtedly, the international milieu is transgressing the conditions of multipolarity that both India and Germany require; hence, the effort to engage strongly and build a partnership which will provide avenues for autonomy. The nature of the German economy after Covid, the crisis in Ukraine, and its growing concerns about China also necessitate diversification. Even without ascribing China …