Internal myopia

The invitation to SAARC leaders at the Modi inaugural  is hopefully less of a show of BJP's solid presence in the LS and more of  the PM elect's instinct to break away from a decade of moribund foreign policy initiatives.One reason why the Pakistan  may also  be inclined  to use the event  in keeping the passage for dialogue open The same with Colombo.The anxieties of the Dravidian parties across the aisles  must matter when the nuts and bolts of vexatious bi-lateral issues come up for discussions.The purported move on settling the Teesta waters issue with B'Desh could however be seen as an attempt to drive home to Didi that the era of a PM dependant on allies is over ,but then its fits well in the current mood of  all round rapprochement .If it takes a CM of Gujarat to seek a marked change in his  views on our immediate neighbours only couple of days to being anointed the PM, it does not follow that Jayalalithaa or Mamata ought to mellow down only when  they would in turn look to occupy  10 Race Course Road !.Modi's external broad band vision  must necessarily entail correction of  a narrow internal myopia as well and that would be some effort.

Pub Economic Times May 24