C Raja Mohan writes: From Great Powers to Asia – India is raising its diplomatic game

As India's great power relations gain new momentum — so visible during the recent visits of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Washington and Paris — Delhi continues to raise its game in the Asian neighbourhood. This is rooted in an important recognition in Delhi that the intersection of great power rivalry with regional geopolitics needs continuous tending. Modi's decision to stop in Cairo on his way back from Washington and Abu Dhabi as he came home from Paris suggests Delhi is in no mood to slow down in Africa, Asia and the waters that connect them — the Indo-Pacific. External…