Does India matter?

Yes, it does. Just that Modi's India has to eschew the domestic politics that makes life difficult for its most vital strategic partners in the Quad -all democracies

The headline of this week’s National Interest will likely draw some sharp responses. It could be, of course India does matter, you nutcase, and you ask this when Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the US, meeting President Joe Biden for the first time, his other fellow Quad leaders, and addressing the UN General Assembly.

Or, it could simply be, hello, you are being deliberately provocative with a click-bait.

Of course, India does matter, and I would be nuts only if I answered my own headline question in the negative. On the second charge, I will be guilty as charged. I am