[QUOTE] It is struggling to become a regional power and a global player. However, what India needs to realise is that it has to have a more proactive policy of taking its smaller neighbours along otherwise it will always remained tied down. India is not a benign larger neighbour. In some respects it is an authoritarian hegemony. It's very inward looking when it comes to its external policies. And, some of that needs to be re-looked.
India is acquiring aggressive confidence along with economic growth but when that comes to the Indian establishment it translates in the ability that overrides anything that smaller neighbours do. [/QUOTE] What does she mean by proactive, should we drag these lazy country along. We worked hard to reach where we are right now. When we were building Institutions like IIT and IIM's these lazy guys were communalizing there education. it seems the author did not hear the story of grasshopper and the ant
