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India, the incredible and the vulnerable

Posted by Matt in April 22nd, 2008

Indeed, alongside the tourism campaign proclaiming “Incredible India,” there’s also a sense of Vulnerable India. A quick 360-degree tour of India’s neighborhood reveals how this Asian giant – with its roaring economy and rising global profile – faces a tyranny of geography.

To the west lies historic nemesis Pakistan and, beyond that, Afghanistan – two Muslim nations in the grips of Al Qaeda and Taliban terror, whose collapse could send waves of refugees and violence into Hindu-majority India.

After three wars, contested Kashmir remains a tinderbox, and the loss of Jammu and Kashmir, India’s only Muslim majority state, could ignite a chain reaction of separatism among India’s kaleidoscopic regions, races, religions and languages.

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