India and the United States

Estimation of India as a strategic accomplice in the American grand game plan to contain communism was at its lowest ebb during the cold war. An ebulliant India glowing in its glorified hoary past, civlization, history and exemplary freedom struggle based on non-violence and truth, was intent on carving out a place in world politics just in commensurate with its cultural treasure trove and at par with the other great powers, thought such a lofty ambition was seen abysmally in disproportion to it