India and Austria have enjoyed relatively warm ties, with both countries enjoying over $500 million of bilateral trade alongside close academic and cultural relations.
It is interesting to mention that Prime Minister Narendra Modi's first foreign visit in his third term was to Russia, deviating from his usual practice of visiting a neighbouring country post-swearing-in.
Western democracies usually posing as friends of India, like the US, UK and France gave a free hand to their media Czars to carry out unrestrained anti-Modi and anti-Hindu tirades, mostly sparked by the opposition alliance at home.