He made the argument that “neither being a 5,000-year-old civilisation nor a rising power precludes strategic foolishness” and went on to lament the limits of what he deemed a “transactional” relationship between the US and India. Many comparisons have been drawn between India’s engagement with Russia and the US. But few of the academics and analysts making such comparisons have focused on the United States’ engagement with India versus other nations. Among these voices is Rajesh Rajagopalan, who, in his recent op-ed for ThePrint , drew parallels between Jawaharlal Nehru’s decision to not side with the US against China in...