The current period might well be viewed, or termed, as India’s moment of reckoning. For one, India today — and despite its highly regarded diplomatic skills — increasingly appears more like an ‘outlier’ than a major player in world affairs. It has been virtually sitting on the sidelines when it comes to issues involving peace and order in different regions of the globe, especially in West Asia and Europe. It is also a virtual onlooker as far as the emerging situation in the Indo-Pacific is concerned. Seldom indeed has India faced a situation of this kind.

If this was not bad enough, the entire South Asian region in which India is situated, appears to be in turmoil at present. Afghanistan and Nepal are among the countries on India’s periphery that appear to be most affected, but from the M

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