The return of a familiar distrust

Two decades ago, it was possible to believe that reflexive anti-Americanism would no longer determine how India positioned itself globally.

- MIHIR S SHARMA

But, in recent months and years, it has become clear that, far from declining to rational levels, an unthinking distrust of the West continues to be a major factor in Indian politics. It might be, in fact, increasing in intensity rather than decreasing.