New logic for new India

Reader Rajan Parrikar has directed our attention to this interesting Calcutta Telegraph column by Swapan Dasguptah on the possible impact of President Bush’s passage to India:

Even after he fell from grace and spent his last years in disgrace, there was one country where Richard Nixon was always welcome. For all its other angularities, China never forgot its indebtedness to the man who in 1971 began the process of extricating the Middle Kingdom from its post-communist isolation.
It is still too early to say whether or not President George W. Bush will enjoy such a lofty status in India during his retirement years. Yet, when future historians chart the course of Indian foreign policy in this century, they will have to acknowledge Bush

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