OLD CONNECTIONS - India’s Look East policy should include a revival of cultural ties Sunanda K. Datta-Ray The chanting still resonates in my ears. As, indeed, it should, for what could be more exotic than an Assamese Muslim reciting from a medieval Sanskrit poem to the glory of a king of now distant but once familiar “Cambuj-desa”, Cambodia, while refusing to join me for tea because of “Holy Eid”? That was Guwahati State Museum's director, Saharuddin Ahmed. Pranab Mukherjee and Montek Singh Ahluwalia, giving a new twist to P.V. Narasimha Rao’s Look East policy only a few kilometres away in th...
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