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These domestic failures—breeding economic inequality, tepid growth, poor research and development, low productivity and declining manufacturing—eventually constrain India's international leverage, forcing reactive diplomacy disguised as strategic autonomy.

It’s never a good sign when your foreign minister needs a lobbyist to meet US officials. The recent events signal a breakdown in the Modi government’s ability to operate in today’s Washington through its own machinery.
India tried to build an Israel-style lobby in Washington, DC. But money, race and ideology have kept Indian-Americans from becoming a political force.
Nepal's democratic uprising offers India a choice to either continue with its failed transactional diplomacy or embrace the patient institution-building that South Asia desperately needs.