India seeks a partner, not bully

Shakespeare warned in Coriolanus that “friends now fast sworn, whose double bosoms seem to wear one heart” can, “on a dissension of a doit, break out to bitterest enmity”. Two centuries later, in 1848, Lord Palmerston told the UK House of Commons that nations have no eternal allies and no perpetual enemies, only eternal interests. India spent a quarter century under an illusionary conviction that it had graduated from America’s waiting room to its drawing room. Tragically, Donald Trump during his second stint is now showing New Delhi the door it came in through. The latest surgical strike came last…