By M K Bhadrakumar
Feb 19, 2014
In an era of globalization, it is simply not possible for any country to consciously stay out and keep looking in through a keyhole and plunge into selective engagement with the inmates inside the room.
For a variety of reasons one needn't get into right here, Singapore has come to be a "moderator" of India's foreign policy discourses in the recent decades. India's haphazard "adjustment" with the post-Cold War era brought it close to the Singaporean world-view, especially its "Look East" policies.
The nimble-footed, street-smart Singaporeans feel frustrated at the ponderous way in which the Indian elephant moves around, but would have little to complain about Indian foreign policy in the neo-liberal era.
At any rate, therefore, the K Subrahmanyam Memorial lecture recently in Delhi, titled "Can India be Cunning?", by the Dean of the Lew Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University in Singapore, Professor Kishore Mahubani, becomes an event of interest. More ...
(Copyright 2014 M K Bhadrakumar)
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