NASA photo of Adam’s Bridge (An umbilical cord?)
Passable by foot at low tide till historical times
Passable by foot at low tide till historical times
by Kumar David-March 21, 2015, 7:02 pm
Indo-Lanka relations were in the doldrums all through the MR years; they have never been worse, not even during the JR period. The factor that bedevilled the relationship in both periods was the Tamil question; furthermore one other issue each gave rise to disquiet during each of these two ‘regencies’. During the first term of JR’s presidency, Lanka’s foreign policy swung alarmingly in a pro-US direction at a time when Indira Gandhi’s Delhi was aligned with Moscow. More recently, MR light-fingered with Chinese project funds, treated Lanka as a grotto of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves legerdemain. The former story is well known; the foreign policy implication of the latter is central to this essay. But I will devote a few paragraphs to a relevant background summary first.
