World Focus by Abhishek Vasoo

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Former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Photo: AP High international politics and diplomacy was, by all accounts, former prime minister  Atal Bihari Vajpayee ’s enduring passion. A natural grand strategist, Vajpayee’s realism was tempered by restraint, leading him to craft  a pragmatic foreign policy template for India  that has endured till date. Put somewhat differently, far from being “asleep at the wheel”—as one scurrilous 2002 portrait of him put it—Vajpayee instinctively knew when to speed up India’s quest for power and when to slow down so as to not overreach. This delicate balancing became most prominent in three interrelated set of events that he shaped: India’s decision to unambiguously become a nuclear weapons state in 1998, the Kargil War of 1999, and the outreach to China soon after. To understand Vajpayee’s foreign policy philosophy of balance, one must situate it in the larger arc of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh’s (RSS’s) thinking on inte...