Quad has little relevance to India

As a strategic necessity, the quadrilateral grouping comprising India, the United States, Japan and Australia is an idea whose time has yet to come

There has been much talk in strategic circles in recent times about formation of a quadrilateral (Quad) comprising India, the United States, Japan and Australia. In fact, a group of officials of these countries at a relatively low level has already come into being. Yet, while some argue that these four nations have mutually compatible strategic and security interests in the Indo-Pacific, others are not convinced that the required synergies, which are prerequisite for such a combination, in fact, exist. 

The Quad actually owes its origins to the maritime domain. Starting in the 1990s when India-US ties improved following the collapse