Impolitic policies

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Claude Arpi

Foreign policy has always been incomprehensible to the common man. So think the "experts". Some cables from India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to his Ambassador to China in October 1950, explaining how the "poor Tibetans" (who had just been invaded and thrashed by Communist China) could not grasp the "larger issues" involved, always come back to my mind. Nevertheless at that time, with a bit of education, one could grasp the broad lines and contours of the foreign policy and eventually comprehend the next moves on the great or small games' chessboard.

Today, things have changed drastically; it is no longer as simple as a Bollywood script. Even for active watchers of India's foreign policy, it has become increasingly difficult to follow what is going on. South Block's (or the other Block's) way of thinking has become so sophisticated that a normally educated observer cannot make sense of all the intricacies.

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