Does India’s neighbourhood policy need reworking?
The HinduRecent visits by Foreign Secretary Harsh Vardhan Shringla and National Security Adviser Ajit Doval to countries in the region appear to show new energy in India’s neighbourhood policy. Shyam Saran and Constantino Xavier discuss India’s neighbourhood policy in a conversation moderated by Suhasini Haidar. If the main objective of India’s neighbourhood policy is to connect and have closer links with immediate neighbours, which has been stated by various Indian Prime Ministers over the last 20 years, then I would risk saying that India is doing more than ever today on connectivity and regional policies. All discussions of India’s policies in the neighbourhood today are held without mentioning the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation, given that India had refused to attend the summit in Pakistan over the terrorism issue.
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