Abstract:
India, Indians, their institutions and leaders are conspicuous by their
indifference towards strategic thinking. In one of the editorials almost
two decades back, The Economist had commented, "India is a country of
a billion people and a nuclear arsenal in its backyard; but in the
international arena it counts for nothing " It went on to illustrate that
while India counted for one seventh of the global population, its share of
the international trade was below a per cent and in terms of its per capita
ranking India would be near the bottom end of the list. Two decades
down the line, the situation has not changed much.
