NEW DELHI -- Although world attention is invariably riveted on India-Pakistan hostility, New Delhi's ties with its other neighbors have been uneasy in the best of times.
Take the cases of Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Nepal. New Delhi's relationship with Colombo nosedived after the late Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi's blunder a little over a decade ago of sending in his troops to help government forces on the island fight the rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, demanding a separate homeland for the minority Tamil community.
That this relationship is still difficult is apparent from the fact that Sri Lanka now relies on distant Norway for solace in its ethnic crisis.