A geopolitical roadmap in uncertain times

Book review of India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, the Present

These are truly uncertain times —when the pandemic takes millions of lives at random and destroys economies and livelihoods; when Indian and Chinese troops are engaged in a year-long border standoff that has taken the lives of soldiers on both sides; when China’s naval vessels patrol the Indian Ocean, while it consolidates partnerships in South Asia and across Eurasia. The US looks beaten and motheaten — its former president disrupted and damaged his own country and much of the world, and the present one gropes truculently for a policy.

India watches these happenings with fear and bewilderment — rushing to the