India is Playing a iplomatic Trapeze

Nantoo Banerjee Few will deny that India is navigating a complex foreign policy balancing ties with countries such as the US, Russia, China, Israel and Iran among others, some of them being known to be arch enemies of each other. India has been leveraging platforms like the BRICS, QUAD and the 10-member Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) that includes Iran and Pakistan. The 11-member BRICS group also has Pakistan and Iran as members. Lately, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified India as a “central pillar” of his proposed “Hexagon” framework which is designed to unite nations against both the “radical Shia…