DesiPundit

A succession of weak governments and weaker leaders did nothing to change the impression that India was on the retreat, and governments, rebels and terrorists in the region could pursue their own agenda without the fear of a forceful Indian reaction. Pax Indica—which stabilisedNepal in the 1950s, liberated Bangladesh in the 1970s, thwarted a coup in the Maldives in the 1980s—defaulted to Lax Indica, where the only Indian intervention was an absence of it. The absence of intervention, to turn a Rumsfeldian phrase, is intervention by absence. And not exactly the best way to shape favourable results.

Has India’s policy of not intervening in the neighborhood damaged her national interest?  The problem, as always, is our inability to see the larger picture.