India and Asian Geopolitics: The Past, Present Paperback – April 20, 2021

The author's understanding of the complex world of games nations play and his ability to present it to the reader in a lucid style is wonderful. It provides some sane advice to India's policy-makers about the best pissible course India should take to build its internal strength, without trying to assume any impractical international role, not commensurate with its real strength. Indian leadership would do well to heed the author's advice to follow such domestic polucies as would consoludate rather than fragment the Indian society on religious and other avoudable faultlines.

It's one of the good books that brings out even the minor details and connects it to larger picture and it's future consequences related to the Indian foreign policy.It's a must read for those who want to gain a better understanding of the India' image in the world and how it has transformed since independence.It's written by an expert in the field with decades of experience and who has seen and done the strategic manoeuvring from the close quarters.Civil Services aspirants will definitely benefit from this.

More like a text book

The book is well written seeing foreign policy through history.Be it India's mis steps in Indo China war or early success in managing third world ,the book analysis without any great theories.Although it is not as crisp as Shiv Shankar menon's earlier book Choices,the book is still a delightful read.

The book is definitely an amazing read.This piece coming from Amb Shivshankar Menon discusses the geopolitics mainly of Asia with a frequent mention of Indian context. One needs to have a basic orientation with the term Geopolitics and basic knowledge of past events would be very helpful while going through the book.